Putin routinely steps over NATO’s red lines
I consider Dmitri Trenin not only one of the foremost Russian strategic thinkers but also a mentor and a friend. Yet his piece “Fears of World War III are overblown” (July 20) is loaded with short-cuts...
View ArticleI’m on Putin’s hit list but I’m not the real victim
Russian prosecutors last week released a list of Americans they want to question in connection with their bogus criminal case against Hermitage Capital founder William Browder. I was one of a number of...
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To fight populists, go local
WARSAW — In Poland, local government is under siege. Since the Law and Justice party (PiS) came to power in 2015, it has repeatedly tried to take away local funding and authority. It has drafted...
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Steve Bannon’s European dream is delusional but dangerous
Out of favor at the White House and out of a job at Breitbart, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is looking for new paying clients by making waves in Europe. His latest...
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How the EU can master L’art du deal
WASHINGTON — Everything suggests that the upcoming visit to Washington by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström will echo the historian...
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Tech’s turning point
Europe’s push to rein in U.S. tech giants often has looked ineffectual, like Don Quixote tilting at a windmill. When Brussels regulators this month hit Google with a multibillion fine for antitrust...
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With anti-Muslim laws, Europe enters new dark age
LONDON — What has become of Europe? New laws targeting Muslims are reminiscent of a time when innocent Jewish children were abducted by masked monks and imprisoned in monasteries to “save” them from...
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Can comedy heal the wounds of war?
For the better part of a decade, Christopher Croghan was at war. He deployed to Iraq for the first time in 2007 at the height of the conflict. Returning home, he found it no more peaceful than the...
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How Silicon Valley became a den of spies
SAN FRANCISCO — In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War’s wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling — and so was San Francisco. The powerful Loma Prieta earthquake, the most...
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Stop trying to ‘win’ Brexit
LONDON — Negotiating’s easy, right? You play hardball, you don’t give any ground and if the other side look happy about the outcome then it’s probably because they’ve pulled a fast one on you. It’s all...
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This time, Viktor Orbán has gone too far
STOCKHOLM — The time has come for the European People’s Party to finally stand up to Viktor Orbán. As Europe’s biggest and most diverse political grouping, we believe in working across political and...
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How two Kentucky politicians are about to legalize hemp
On nights that Congress is in session, Rep. James Comer, a farmer from Kentucky, lays down on a fold-up mattress in his office on the fifth floor of the Longworth building and hits the lights by 10:30....
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Europe’s forgotten dead
INTERNATIONAL WATERS NORTH OF LIBYA — When the boy’s naked body was lifted onto the rescue ship, he had seemed alive. A doctor on board certified he died only a short time before we had arrived. For...
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Two false Brexit choices for Britain
PARIS — In this “silly season,” when real news takes a summer holiday, two wrong ideas are vying for the attention of Britons bored stiff by the interminable feuding of their political class over...
View ArticleEuropean politics needs a shake-up
In a recent article for POLITICO, “This time, Viktor Orbán has gone too far” (August 3), my colleague in the European People’s Party, Swedish MEP Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, made an urgent plea for the...
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Britain’s most dangerous export: Corbynism
WASHINGTON — It is a testament to the enervated state of the European left that Jeremy Corbyn could be viewed as some sort of savior. And yet that is how an increasing number of desperate social...
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How to make China work for Europe
STOCKHOLM — China’s bet to transform the world economy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), involves strategic risks for Europe. But these are far from insurmountable. If the Continent’s policymakers...
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Turkey’s perfect storm
WASHINGTON — Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, came to power on the heels of the 2001 financial crisis that ended entire political careers. Following Friday’s meltdown in the Turkish economy, a...
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Counting the cost of Brexit inaction
LONDON — Close your eyes. Imagine for a moment that you’re waking up on June 24, 2016 and turn on the TV to hear that Remain had won the U.K.’s EU referendum. Prime Minister David Cameron is standing...
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Introducing Britain’s new political party
LONDON — You don’t have to spend long in Westminster before you hear someone talking about the possibility a new political party emerging in the U.K. The idea, inspired by the rise of French President...
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