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Jeremy Corbyn’s lofty neutrality on Brexit
LONDON — In June 1975, Jeremy Corbyn was living in a dingy one-bedroom flat in Haringey, north London, with his first wife, Jane, and a tabby cat called Harold Wilson. The moggie was named for the then...
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‘I will be back’: The League’s revenge party
PONTIDA, Italy — For decades, the Italian municipality of Pontida, north of Milan, has served as the site of the far-right League party’s annual meeting — an event that doubles as, well, an actual...
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Trump’s Ukraine circus
There’s something obvious about the Ukraine scandal threatening to bring down Donald Trump. The people around him — his top lieutenants, former campaign manager Paul Manafort and attorney Rudy Giuliani...
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Jacques Chirac, France’s lovable failure
Jacques Chirac was France’s favorite everyman politician. But if the former president, who passed away Thursday at age 86, has entered the pantheon of France’s most popular leaders, it’s in large part...
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Jacques Chirac: Mourn the man, not his politics
PARIS — Jacques Chirac’s passing marks the end of an old kind of French politics. The former French president, who died Thursday, was one of the last big beasts of a political era — one that, though it...
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Ukraine’s people power problem
KYIV — Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he is “obsessed” with referendums. Among the promises Ukraine’s comedian-turned-president made before taking office was to introduce “people’s power through referendums...
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For Ukrainians in Poland, jobs but no security
WARSAW — The night Roman was beaten up, his radio wasn’t working. The 33-year-old Ukrainian Uber driver had picked up a rowdy group of young people in Warsaw, who asked him to play Polish dance music....
View ArticleKeep politics out of the EU’s vetting process
As a member of the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, part of my job is to ensure the members of the next European Commission are fit to serve. The trouble is, my committee is probably not...
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Britain’s democracy gap
The U.K. is backsliding on democracy. As a British member of the European Parliament, the spectacle has been particularly hard to watch. The dramatic twists and turns of British politics these past few...
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Poland’s new post-Brexit BFF: Germany
WARSAW — Call it the great Brexit reshuffle. Poland has greeted the prospect of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union with fear that it will be relegated to the sidelines. London, after all,...
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In defense of Poland’s ruling party
Why are so many in Brussels and the United States intent on making Poles the bad guys of Europe? Extremist parties have made inroads in Greece, Austria and Germany. The most popular party in Italy is...
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Why the Trump scandal is good for Ukraine
When Ukraine got dragged into a scandal that could end in the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, it didn’t seem like good news — to put it mildly — for the country’s anti-corruption crusader...
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Poland’s economic miracle won’t last
WARSAW — Since coming to power in 2015, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has captured state institutions, attacked the independence of the courts and violated the basic norms of the...
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As the US retreats from Middle East, Europe can no longer hide in its shadow
The Kurds have been abandoned, again. Theirs is a long history of Western betrayal, dating back to colonial times. That the West would once again turn its back, after enlisting Kurdish help in Iraq and...
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Never again ‘never again’
One certainly cannot accuse Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of Germany’s governing CDU party, of speaking in overly drastic terms. She sees Wednesday’s attack in the city of Halle as a “wake-up...
View ArticleLet’s move forward in the western Balkans
The decision by the European Union over whether to launch accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania comes at a time the bloc is facing numerous challenges. However, the issues before us...
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Ignoble taste in literature
TIRANA, Albania — The Swedish Academy’s decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke last week was a shocking move that should trouble the political world as much as it has the...
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Albania gets religion
SKRAPAR, Albania — On a parched day in late August, tens of thousands of Sufi pilgrims wound their way up the dusty, unpaved road to Mount Tomorr, in southern Albania. At the summit, they ritually...
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Europe should commend Catalan convictions
This is a POLITICO debate. For the counterargument, click here. The 12 separatist Catalan leaders who were convicted by the Spanish Supreme Court for sedition, misuse of public funds and disobedience...
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Europe should condemn Catalan convictions
This is a POLITICO debate. For the counterargument, click here. BARCELONA — The Spanish Supreme Court’s decision to put 12 Catalan leaders behind bars should raise alarm bells in Europe. The former...
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