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Thought populists want to kill the EU? It’s worse than that.
LONDON — Populist leaders like Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini are frequently portrayed as dedicated to the destruction of the European Union. With harsh words for Brussels and displays of...
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European Parliament is failing on transparency
When it comes to transparency, the European Parliament’s motto has become: Do as I say, not as I do. Members of the key European institution are fighting crucial reforms to ensure MEPs act by a shared...
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Living with Mrs. May
LONDON — Hullo there. I’m Phil, the Woody Allen lookalike, aka Theresa’s other half. It’s a funny old life at the moment. “Him indoors,” the police officers in Downing Street call me. I sometimes stop...
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Poland’s ruling party will exploit Gdańsk murder
BUDAPEST — The assassination of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz, who died Monday after he was attacked at a charity event over the weekend, has plunged Poland into grief and shock. But an even greater...
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Don’t leave migration to the populists
PARIS — If Europe’s mainstream leaders don’t own the migration issue, the Continent’s populists will. Sadly, that’s exactly what’s happening. Deadlocked on reforming the EU’s dysfunctional asylum...
View ArticleWhat Germany should do about Europe
BERLIN — January marks the beginning of Europe’s Schicksalsjahr: its fateful year. Ahead of the European parliamentary election in May — the first after Brexit — populist and anti-European parties are...
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Young heroes with invisible scars
For survivors of war, suffering doesn’t end with physical trauma. More than seven years of brutal conflict in Syria has left a growing number of Syrians with hidden wounds, battling psychological...
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How Brussels blew Brexit
Brexit, viewed from Europe, is looking to many like a particularly British mess. But what if we’re the baddies? It’s an unpopular idea on this side of the Channel. But the Brexit impasse is not British...
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What keeps Slovaks from the ballot boxes?
At the last European election five years ago, Slovakia trailed every other country on voter turnout, with only 13 percent casting ballots. As a Slovak who’s spent many years abroad, I wanted to find...
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Turkey’s ‘anti-Erdoğan’ deserves Nobel Peace Prize
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a fierce political crackdown in the wake of a failed coup in 2016, Osman Kavala did not expect to become a target. “I doubt if they’d be interested...
View ArticleBritain’s leaving gift: A more stable European Parliament
As destabilizing as Brexit has been for European politics, when it comes to the composition of the next European Parliament, it’s likely to make things easier for fans of the European project. To be...
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No time to go wobbly on Syria
Europe risks making a deadly mistake in Syria. As the country’s civil war turns ever more decisively in favor of President Bashar al-Assad, European countries have slowly begun to reach out to the...
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Trump’s America has jumped the shark
Dear writers of “America,” I’m a big fan of your show. It was madcap from the start. There was a restlessness, a spirit of unlimited possibility, that made for excellent television. Characters were...
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How grief became Joe Biden’s ‘superpower’
Days after his 7-year-old son was murdered inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the phone rang at Mark Barden’s house. “The vice president,” his sister-in-law whispered. He held...
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Populism’s rising tide
Europe has withstood unprecedented shocks since the last European Parliament election in 2014 — a spate of terror attacks, a migration crisis, the erosion of rule of law. And yet, as the next election...
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Eurozone’s tragic flaw: Too much public debt
HELSINKI — The European Union’s common currency area has been muddling through crises from its inception. The aftereffects of the most recent turmoil — triggered by the 2008 financial crisis — are...
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Poland’s progressive hope
With high-profile leaders such as New Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern and U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rising to global prominence, you’d be forgiven for thinking the progressive left...
View ArticleA Brexit deal requires keyhole surgery, not amputation
LONDON — In less than two months, the U.K. will leave the EU, unless there’s an extension of Article 50. The default remains no deal, until parliament ratifies an agreement. Last month, the Brexit...
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Ukraine’s joke of an election
KIEV — There’s a joke circulating in the Ukrainian capital: “For years, we have voted for serious people, and all we got is farce. So why not vote for a comedian and see what happens?” Ukrainians are...
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Irish Brexit backstop is about more than just the border
LONDON — The Brexit debate has been high in emotional arguments and low on clarity. Nowhere is this more obvious than on the issue of the Irish border, where politicians are still failing to grasp...
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