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In presidential vote, Ukraine looks east
Since Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, political power in the country has always shifted between the Ukrainian-speaking, western part of the country and the Russian-speaking east. Then...
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UK’s twisted logic: Selling arms in name of peace in Yemen
In his recent article, “Yemen crisis won’t be solved by UK arms exports halt,” U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt makes an impassioned plea for continued arms sales to Saudi Arabia. He argues that...
View ArticleEU reform, Marie Kondo-style
If there’s one thing we can all, perhaps, agree on it is this: We live in messy times. The global order is changing, our societies are becoming more polarized and something should be done about it. The...
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Art of the political apology
LONDON — There are few diplomatic maneuvers as inane as the meaningless state apology — except perhaps the demand for one. Last month, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he had written...
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NATO at 70: Where next?
As member nations gather to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary this week, POLITICO asked experts to forecast what the military alliance will look like 10 years from now. How should it spend its growing...
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Who are Europe’s far-right identitarians?
Europe has a major blind spot: the online reach of its far-right extremists. The Continent’s far-right groups are digitally savvy; they know how to distort public perception, drive the political agenda...
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Britain’s culture of confrontation
PARIS — Having exhausted all the unreasonable alternatives, Britain may just be on the brink of an 11th-hour outbreak of common sense. Don’t count on it. Four days after the bells of “Independence Day”...
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Europe’s untapped refugee potential
Dear Europe, I understand and empathize with your fear and sense of uncertainty. Fear of the other, fear of the unknown, fear of an uncertain future. I, too, am worried about the future. At age 19, a...
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How Europe learned to fear China
When did Europe become so afraid of China? Last month, the European Commission published its much-awaited new strategic outlook on China. The document offers up sweeping judgments on China’s...
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Migrants flee Libyan ‘prison’ to Tunisia
MEDENINE, Tunisia — At a café next to a shelter for asylum seekers some 100 kilometers from the Libyan border, Senait recounts, in a hushed voice, what brought her to Tunisia. The 16-year-old, who fled...
View ArticleWhy US needs to get tough on privacy
WASHINGTON — Louis Brandeis, a great American jurist and one of the founders of modern privacy, once wrote that the “right to be alone is the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by...
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Europe’s missing women leaders
The European Union has a woman problem. The bloc has never had a female president of the European Commission or European Council. And just two presidents of the European Parliament have been women —...
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France’s double game in Libya
PARIS — Like the police captain in “Casablanca” feigning outrage at gambling in Rick’s Café before being handed his winnings, France was “shocked, shocked” to find that the Libyan generalissimo whose...
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s second act
KIEV — In Ukraine, the time for jokes is over. With an incredibly successful blitz campaign, television satirist Volodymyr Zelenskiy has captured the support of the vast majority of Ukrainians and...
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EU’s two-faced ‘values’
Proponents of the European project like to talk about a core set of “European values” for which it stands. At a time when the European Union is threatened from within and without, the idea is...
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Why we need Extinction Rebellion
LONDON — When I first heard the bongos on my daily commute, I rolled my eyes. I cross Waterloo Bridge by bike to get to work. Normally, that means weaving between buses. But last week, it was green...
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Putin’s garbage challenge
KLIN, Russia — There’s something rotten at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Massive open-air landfills and the pollution they bring are stirring tensions across Russia, provoking some of the most...
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Belgium’s democratic experiment
Those looking for a solution to the wave of anger and distrust sweeping Western democracies should have a look at an experiment in European democracy taking place in a small region in eastern Belgium....
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David Cameron made the Huawei leak possible
Senior U.K. Cabinet ministers are being hauled before a leak inquiry this weekend to determine who is responsible for the unprecedented reporting of highly secret discussions concerning national...
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What Putin could lose in Ukraine
MOSCOW — Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s landslide victory in last week’s presidential election in Ukraine has been interpreted by some as a big win for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The comedian is a...
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