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How Europe can save the Iran deal
ROME — There is no way around it. U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal may have pleased his political base and delighted the leaders of Israel and Saudi...
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Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline should not be built
WARSAW — The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a bad deal for the European Union and a bad deal for Ukraine, and it should not go ahead. The EU’s focus should be on the desirability of the project, but the...
View ArticleHungary’s illiberal infection of the Western Balkans
BELGRADE — Back in the late 1990s, a group of Serbian dissidents, independent journalists and the opposition fled Slobodan Milošević’s dictatorial regime to Hungary. In an open-air tavern under the...
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How Britain made me a citizen of nowhere
PARIS — I am a citizen of nowhere. Or that’s what Brexit Britain would have me, and millions of others like me, believe. I was denied the right to vote in the 2016 referendum on Britain’s membership of...
View ArticleHungary’s civil society is doing just fine
According to the opinion piece “Hungary’s illiberal infection of the western Balkans,” under Viktor Orbán’s government, running an independent NGO has become a “hazardous activity,” and this erosion of...
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In photos: Hidden away on a halal holiday
All photographs by Bradley Secker for POLITICO ISTANBUL — The Muslim-friendly tourism industry is the fastest growing global travel sector. For observant Muslims looking for a package holiday in the...
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John McCain’s last fight
John McCain always said he’d go down fighting, and so he has, dickering from his deathbed over CIA nominee Gina Haspel and pre-emptively uninviting President Donald Trump from his funeral, then leaving...
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In his Hungarian homeland, Soros’ gains are slipping away
When I interviewed George Soros in Budapest in 1989, Hungarians considered the 56-year-old Hungarian-born billionaire a hero for opening the first independent foundation to operate behind the Iron...
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Germany’s dangerous ‘new anti-Semitism’
BERLIN — For many Germans, the country’s post-war reconstruction was as much moral as it was economic and political. The effort to atone for the crimes of World War II — and to stamp out anti-Semitism...
View ArticleTech companies aren’t the enemy
Could you help me fix my printer while you’re here? That was the punchline making the rounds on Twitter and social media following Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before U.S. Congress in the wake of the...
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How Trump’s obsession with China could turn America into Japan
Donald Trump’s plan to make the American economy great again is deceptively simple: wrestle jobs, market share and indeed the future back from China. But what if the U.S. president, in the process,...
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Judgments on Mark Zuckerberg in Brussels
Was Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg’s long-awaited Brussels hearing a key moment for European tech regulation — or a missed opportunity? Billed as a showdown between the 34-year-old CEO and the European...
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When the CIA infiltrated a presidential campaign
President Donald Trump seems to believe that FBI agents infiltrated his presidential campaign for political purposes, and has tweeted that the bureau’s actions could amount to a scandal “bigger than...
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Privacy is power
LONDON — Privacy has never been more under threat. But strangely, it has also never been more alive. From increasingly connected and personalized spaces to the looming threat of ubiquitous facial...
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‘Heretic’ in the Vatican
ROME — “They call me a heretic.” Not the words you’d expect to hear from the head of the Roman Catholic Church. But that’s what Pope Francis told a group of fellow Jesuits in Chile earlier this year,...
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Italian voters head for euro showdown
MILAN — So Italy will not be the first country in Western Europe to be led by Euroskeptic populists after all. Or, at least, not for the next few months. On Sunday, Italy’s head of state, President...
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China’s digital rise is not inevitable
BEIJING — Given China’s rapid emergence as a powerhouse of digital innovation, it’s easy to see why some are worried the West will soon be outpaced and fall behind. They needn’t be so alarmed. The road...
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Europe’s losing streak
Here are a few words you keep hearing about Europe today: Drift. Relapse. Malaise. Trouble. If news cycles now move in eye blinks, political epochs come in quicker too. The current era — of Europe in...
View ArticleItaly’s real euro referendum
BOLOGNA — To listen to League leader Matteo Salvini, Italy’s next election will be a “referendum” on whether Italy should be free or enslaved. Given that his efforts to form a government foundered over...
View ArticleEurope to Britain: Eat your cake and go
BERLIN — You Brits are known for many cool things, and high among them are the Rolling Stones. It’s likely that more of us in Europe can recite the band’s lyrics than can remember the sonnets of...
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