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EU to migrants: Go home and stay home
BRUSSELS — The dehumanization of Europe is on the march. Capitulating to populist anti-immigration politicians, European Union leaders are pulling up the drawbridge to migrants fleeing war, famine and...
View ArticleNo transparency please, we’re MEPs
One year after European Parliament President Antonio Tajani pledged to bring greater transparency to how MEPs are compensated for expenses, the noble process ended with a loud thump on the...
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Time for Europe to embrace democracy
Call it the EU’s democracy gap. As the countries that make up the European Union have become ever more integrated — economically, regulatorily, culturally — policies set at the EU level have become an...
View ArticleA parallel currency for Italy is possible
In Joseph Stiglitz’s recent article for the POLITICO Global Policy Lab (“How to Exit the Eurozone,” June 29, 2018), the Nobel-prize wining economist proposes that Italy issue a parallel currency as a...
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In pictures: What do you wonder about life in Europe?
Skip the museums. Avoid the tour groups and the malls. Don’t linger at the monuments. The best way to spend a day in a new city, or country, is to wander the streets and talk to the people who call it...
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Give Trump his due: Europe must spend more on NATO
DEN HELDER, Netherlands — Thousands of police officers and soldiers will be deployed to provide security around the NATO summit in Brussels on July 11-12. Their presence might also be called for inside...
View ArticleThe case against techno-pessimism
Fear of technological change is as old as technology itself. Socrates famously worried that the spread of writing would enfeeble the human mind by encouraging forgetfulness. Centuries later, the...
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How Trump and Putin could kill NATO
Spare a thought for NATO officials and diplomats. They have spent the last six months preparing a summit that could be rendered irrelevant in a matter of days. It’s not that the meeting — focused on...
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‘They will die in Tallinn’: Estonia girds for war with Russia
TALLIN — Pretty much no one in the Western alliance is looking forward to the next few days. NATO heads of state are due to meet Wednesday in Brussels beneath the disinterested gaze of President Donald...
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Vestager’s misguided Google crusade
This is a POLITICO debate. For the counterargument, click here. MILAN — “Your tax lady, she really hates the U.S.” That’s how, with his typical touch, Donald Trump reportedly voiced his concerns about...
View ArticleA bad Android decision would hurt developers
Thomas Vinje is transparent about his bias as spokesman for the complainant in the Android case in his recent article for POLITICO, “Why Android is Google’s Trojan horse.” But that doesn’t excuse his...
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‘Bio-Nazis’ go green in Germany
BONN, Germany — The cult German police television drama “Tatort” usually features murders committed by organ smugglers, baby thieves and international spies. But on one Sunday this May, the suspects...
View ArticleTrump sold out Ukraine for a photo op and a football
KIEV — Over the past five days, U.S. President Donald Trump has belittled NATO, insulted German Chancellor Angela Merkel, humiliated U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, disrespected the British queen and...
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The mystery firm that became the NRA’s top election consultant
Heading into the 2014 midterm elections, polls showed the Republican Party had an opportunity to retake control of the Senate. Such a change would severely limit President Barack Obama’s legislative...
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Bullied by Trump, here’s how Europe can punch back
He came, he saw, he vandalized. Donald Trump’s rampage of political destruction through Brussels and Britain has left NATO allies, European Union partners and believers in a U.S.-U.K. “special...
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EU should keep Turkey close and Erdoğan even closer
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina — Turkey used to be a flawed democracy gravitating toward the EU. The road to a full-fledged liberal democracy was long and tortuous, but the direction of travel seemed...
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All wild on Ukraine’s eastern front
URZUF, Ukraine — The two-week-old calf was, in a way, another victim of the war. A smallholder farmer named Galina Korovaytseva had left it tethered in her yard late last month in Urzuf, a village on...
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How Europe smothers creativity
The European creative industry faces great challenges. U.S. tech platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google are expanding rapidly and are increasingly turning into competitors in...
View ArticleEuropean Schools grade fairly
“The genius of the Greeks” (July 5) unjustly discredits the reputation of the European Schools. As secretary-general of the European Schools, and on behalf of the European Schools System, I am keen to...
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Fears of World War III are overblown
MOSCOW — Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki was widely derided in the U.S. and Europe as a public relations disaster with dire implications for the geopolitical world order. Yes,...
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