Five ways to fix European democracy
Manfred Weber is the leader of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament. After weeks of struggle, the European institutions have finally chosen the leaders who will preside over the next...
View ArticleHow to remake the EU
Dacian Cioloș is chair of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. The European Union is no stranger to shape-shifting. Throughout its history, the EU has evolved from a “community of coal...
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Louis C.K. finds #MeToo forgiveness in Italy
Hannah Roberts is a British freelance foreign correspondent and producer. ROME — A standing ovation isn’t the reaction you’d expect a #MeToo offender to receive in 2019. And yet the shamed U.S....
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France is back, but where is Germany?
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. PARIS — Franco-German relations are tense. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to be just a passing phase, but something more systemic. The...
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Von der Leyen’s gender-unbalanced Commission
Samira Rafaela is a Dutch MEP for the Renew Europe group. It is almost 2020, nearly 115 years after the International Women Suffrage Alliance was founded in Berlin, and there are still far too few...
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Europe must put security first with 5G
Michael R. Pompeo is U.S. Secretary of State. EU communications ministers will gather in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss how to safeguard emerging fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. Their...
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France’s existential pension-reform battle
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. PARIS — There is a French speciality as emblematic as camembert, cognac or...
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The UK election from hell
LONDON — There are no good options on offer in the U.K.’s most ghastly of winter elections. In the blue corner: a Conservative Party stuffed with Union Jack-waving hard Brexiteers led by a mendacious...
View ArticleChina’s 5G tech is not a threat to Europe
In his opinion piece “Europe must put security first with 5G” (December 2), U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo piled on to his disinformation campaign against China and Chinese companies, trying to...
View ArticleWhat rich countries get wrong about the EU budget
Clotilde Armand is a Romanian MEP with the Renew Europe group. She is a member of the European Parliament’s budgets committee. There’s a major fallacy at the heart of the EU’s budget debate. The story...
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How a slice of rural western Ukraine became a geopolitical fault line
Ian Bateson is a journalist based in Ukraine and visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM). The research for this piece was enabled by “Reporters in the Field,” a Robert Bosch...
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This may be Brexit Britain’s finest hour
Eoin Drea is senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and a research fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. In Europe, it’s common knowledge that the United Kingdom is...
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How to revamp EU foreign policy
Jeppe Kofod is foreign minister of Denmark. Stef Blok is foreign minister of the Netherlands. Tomáš Petříček is foreign minister of the Czech Republic. The European Union has the tools to act...
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Sánchez looks to far left to break Spain’s political gridlock
MADRID — For Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, the path out of political deadlock increasingly looks like a coalition government with the far-left Unidas Podemos — the first of its kind in the...
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Failure to get tough on emissions rules undermines Paris climate pact
Frank Bainimarama is prime minister of Fiji. MADRID — When the world agreed to the landmark Paris climate agreement in 2015, there was a surge of optimism that we had finally found a blueprint for...
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Europe’s rule-of-law emergency
Sophie in ’t Veld, a Dutch MEP from the Democraten 66 party, was head of the European Parliament’s ad hoc mission to Malta earlier this month. There is a hidden crisis in the European Union — a crisis...
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12 people and things that ruined British politics
Tunku Varadarajan is executive editor at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO Europe. On December 12, the United Kingdom will conclude the tawdriest...
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It’s not just Johnson and Trump. British political parties are starting to...
In Britain’s uninspiring and relatively uneventful general election campaign, featuring two prospective prime ministers — Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn — with low...
View ArticleFinland is no feminist utopia
Maryan Abdulkarim is a Somali-Finnish writer and feminist community organizer. HELSINKI — Last Sunday, Sanna Marin, the 34-year-old Finnish Social Democrat, became the world’s youngest sitting prime...
View ArticleCorbynism will outlast Corbyn
Rosa Prince is the author of “Theresa May, the Enigmatic Prime Minister” (Biteback Publishing, 2017) and “Comrade Corbyn” (Biteback Publishing, 2016). LONDON — The Glastonbury cries of “Oh Jer-e-my...
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