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Poland’s vision for Europe
WARSAW — The European Union is stuck in a vicious cycle of crises. If there’s any hope of breaking it, the EU urgently needs to change course after May’s European Parliament election. We’ve experienced...
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Estonia joins the far-right club
TALLINN — Europe’s populist wave has hit Estonia — hard. In a national election in March, the Conservative People’s Party — a far-right upstart that says it wants to protect an “indigenous Estonian”...
View ArticleEU’s East-West divide didn’t have to be
Fifteen years after Europe’s big-bang enlargement, the EU still feels like two halves rather than a whole. Many Western Europeans still refer to the Central and Eastern European member states that...
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Europe’s dangerous creation myth
Europeans are paying a price for believing in their own myth. With the furies of Brexit and the future of the European Union up for debate, proponents of the European project are burdened with a...
View ArticleWhy New Zealand’s press just put on blinders for its biggest story
New Zealanders needn’t worry about their government censoring the press. On Wednesday, five of the country’s major news outlets proved only too happy to censor themselves. Representatives of Radio New...
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How Germany went wobbly on the West
If there’s a moment that betrays Germany’s wobbly geopolitical instincts, it is Berlin’s we-won’t-think-of-fighting response to Russian military maneuvers that followed Moscow’s takeover of Crimea....
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What’s next for the Spanish far right
MADRID — For years, Spain was spared the type of far-right political movement that has spread across Europe like wildfire. Social scientists explained the phenomenon by pointing to Spain’s all-too...
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How populists spread vaccine fear
LONDON — Europe’s political crisis has become a public health crisis. Nearly half of Europeans believe vaccines are dangerous to human health, according to a recent Eurobarometer poll. It’s a shocking...
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Europe can still save the Iran nuclear deal
SIBIU, Romania — Tehran’s decision to restart part of the activities prohibited under the landmark 2015 nuclear deal ushers in a new phase in the dangerous escalation triggered by U.S. President Donald...
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Macron has a jobs problem
PARIS — Emmanuel Macron’s response to the Yellow Jacket protests has been specific and decisive. Since the beginning of the year, the French president has announced €17 billion of additional spending —...
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Viktor Orbán’s anti-Semitism problem
When U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Monday in Washington, he should realize that he is welcoming a leader who deals in hateful anti-Semitic tropes. Orbán will...
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Germany’s ‘joke’ party wants seat at EU table
BERLIN — It’s just after noon on a bright weekday in Berlin and Martin Sonneborn is a little hungover. “We’ve just held big campaign events here in Berlin,” he says between sips of orange juice and...
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Will corn, chicken and Champagne scuttle a US-EU trade deal?
WASHINGTON — When trade representatives visit me to discuss biotechnology products, often the first thing I do is eat a genetically modified kernel of corn from my farm in New Hartford, Iowa, to show...
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Let’s put Turkey’s EU membership back on track
ANKARA — Some 30 years ago, on the occasion of Turkey’s formal membership application to the EU, then Prime Minister Turgut Özal likened the process of joining the bloc to “a long and narrow road,”...
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Britain divides but doesn’t rule
PARIS — Britain has finally managed to split France and Germany over Brexit after nearly three years in which the two continental powers marched in lockstep. The trouble for the U.K. is that it is too...
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Germany’s democracy problem
BERLIN — Germany, like many places in Europe, is badly in need of democratic rejuvenation. But where other countries are experimenting with bringing voices from the street into the political process,...
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Facebook’s regulation fail in Ukraine should worry Europe
KIEV — For years, Ukraine has been a playground where Russia tests its abilities to interfere in elections — whether through hacking or influence campaigns. Last month’s presidential election was no...
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Why Brussels overlooks Central Europeans for top EU jobs
WARSAW — In the race for top EU jobs, Central and Eastern Europe are sitting on the sidelines. No politician from the region has been a contender for the presidency of the European Commission or the...
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The Milkshake Party manifesto
LONDON — Since the Milkshake Party emerged, many people have been asking us what our policies are on things like education or the NHS. The answer is simple. We don’t have any. Taking our lead from...
View ArticleFear will save the EU
European voters are confused and afraid — and that could be good news for the European Union. A new poll shows that support for EU membership is the highest it’s been since 1983. But it also found that...
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