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Why the Russia scandal is nothing like Watergate
WASHINGTON — It’s been framing the national conversation for months. The day after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last May, the New York Times headlined its front-page analysis: “In...
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Let refugees intern at the European Commission
Since the peak of the migration crisis that hit Europe in the summer of 2015, there has been a surge of interest and activity around ways to improve the labor market integration of refugees. From tech...
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In the hands of babes
Agence-France Presse journalist Ed Jones photographed the toys (some more obvious than others) that Rohingya children brought with them on what is, at many turns, a chaotic and treacherous journey to...
View ArticleEurope’s migrants are here to stay
It’s time to face the truth. We cannot and will never be able to stop migration. The refugee crisis in Europe may be subsiding, but migration globally will not stop. Today, on International Migrants...
View ArticleBritish business needs Brexit certainty
LONDON — Brexit is finally showing signs of progress: The European Union has green-lighted moving on to the second phase of negotiations, and offered a ray of hope in the process. But this is, at most,...
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Does the Brussels bubble have a diversity problem?
Brussels’ policymakers don’t reflect the increasing diversity of the European Union’s population. There are close to 50 million people of a racial and ethnic minority background living in the bloc....
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Why Europe needs US-style primaries
As Berlin struggles to make sense of the outcome of its September election, the Continent’s capitals — not least Paris — are looking ahead to the next big deadline: the European election in June 2019....
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Angela Merkel, still the queen of Europe
It’s open season for political obituaries of Angela Merkel. But it’s too soon to count out the veteran chancellor, the EU’s longest-serving leader, who’s been in office since 2005. Merkel is likely to...
View ArticleWe know who tried to overthrow the Turkish government
Your recent article “Where in the world is Adil Öksüz?” is somewhat heavyhanded in its central argument. It claims that Öksüz, a theology professor who was at Akıncı Air Base on the day of the coup...
View ArticleMigration: Of course the Commission knows better!
European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos’ recent article “Europe’s migrants are here to stay” illustrates all that is wrong with the European institutions. “It is time to face the...
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Europe has sent you an e-card! Click here to read it.
It’s been a busy year! With all the summit confrontations, Brexit negotiations, sweeping legislations, public consultations, non-apologetic mansplanations and social media defamations, you may have...
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Catalan voters have spoken — again
BARCELONA — The story goes that if you put a frog into lukewarm water and then turn up the heat, it won’t notice the gradually increasing temperature until it is too late. That would have been a good...
View Article3 ways the election changed Catalan politics
BARCELONA — On the surface, after months of political drama in Catalonia, not much seems to have changed. The three pro-independence parties won 47.5 percent of the votes in this week’s regional...
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In pictures: How we see America, and vice-versa
Europe and America are still obsessed with one another. For “EUSA,” photographer Naomi Harris traveled across both continents, documenting American-themed places in Europe and European-themed places in...
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A Brexit Christmas Carol
Thatcher was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. She had worn the EU-flag jumper. She had negotiated the rebate. She had made the speech in Bruges. But she had been dead for...
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Germany puts Germany first
Since the end of World War II, German statesmen from across the political spectrum have insisted that their nation has no national interests, only supranational ones. As founding chancellor of the...
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Brexit’s 2017 buzz-phrases
LONDON — The past year’s Brexit fandango has given us numerous buzzwords and phrases, some more incomprehensible than others. Here, in a Christmas service to our readers, is a short glossary to some...
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The double-exile of Dr. Anton
KIEV — At sunset, on the outskirts of Kiev, Anton lights a cigarette and looks out from his balcony, hundreds of miles from war, from home, from love. Life for this middle-aged, soft-spoken doctor had...
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How China bungled its coming out party
LONDON — The biggest news story of the year stars China — but not the story of how Beijing took advantage of Donald Trump’s isolationism to emerge as the world leader on trade and climate. Let’s call...
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Top of the (political) pops 2017
Far away from the pop charts, a handful of songs in 2017 helped push political revolutions, highlight corruption and radicalize extremists. One allegedly emerged out of the Kremlin, others from...
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