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Britain’s Yellow Jacket election
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. PARIS — There is a striking similarity between the seismic shift in British...
View ArticleDon’t mainstream the far right
Earlier this month, POLITICO published its POLITICO 28 Class of 2020, an “annual ranking of the people shaping European politics and policy.” The inclusion of far-right politicians like Götz Kubitschek...
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In Slovakia, a corrupt state goes on trial
It has become a familiar trope, the court case that tests a society’s integrity at the same time that it weighs the guilt of the accused. But that is exactly what is happening in Slovakia, where the...
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No place for God in British politics
Otto English is the pen name used by Andrew Scott, a writer and playwright based in London. LONDON — The church in the Essex village where I grew up was typical of the kind that dotted the parishes of...
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French strikes: A marathon everyone is forced to run
Noga Arikha is a historian of ideas, philosopher and essayist based in Paris. PARIS — Paris is a famously walkable city. But as we head into the third week of a mass strike — this one called by unions...
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Why Orthodox Christians are losing faith in Putin
MOSCOW — As Vladimir Putin prepared to return to the Kremlin for a third term of office in 2012, Patriarch Kirill, the powerful head of the Russian Orthodox Church, described the ex-KGB officer’s rule...
View ArticleBorn in crisis, Greece’s tech sector looks for a boom
ATHENS — For years, Greece stood on the sidelines as the rest of the world discovered the joys — and wealth — of the digital sector. Greeks were mistrustful of the new. After all, the old — the fat...
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To stay safe, Dutch synagogue operates by invitation only
GRONINGEN, Netherlands — Every other week, as the Jewish holiday of Shabbat approaches in the Dutch city of Groningen, another, more mundane ritual takes place. A group of self-appointed volunteers...
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Why we still take to the streets
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. MOSCOW — The Joker with his chalky face and mocking red grin is everywhere these days. As demonstrators...
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Catholic Church’s other sex abuse problem
Tom Heneghan is a former religion editor for Reuters. He now writes from Paris for the Tablet in London and Religion News Service in Washington. PARIS — The seemingly never-ending clerical sexual-abuse...
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How rogue can Turkey go?
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. Fasten your seatbelts for more trouble with Turkey in 2020. In the last 12 months, Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
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Crisis in Iran will drive wedge between Europe and Washington
Ellie Geranmayeh is a senior policy fellow and deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She specializes in European foreign policy in...
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In pictures: The new faces of ‘Gayropa’
Bradley Secker is a photojournalist based in Istanbul. He covers the Eastern Mediterranean region, Europe and Western Asia, with a focus on the intersection of LGBTQ rights and migration. This story...
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What Europe can do in Iran
Nathalie Tocci is director of Istituto Affari Internazionali, a former special adviser to former European High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, and the author of POLITICO‘s World...
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How not to go on holiday when your country is on fire
Otto English is the pen name used by Andrew Scott, a writer and playwright based in London. In medieval times, life for the holidaying overlord was so much simpler. Our kings whiled away their leisure...
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Why Trump’s fight with Iran isn’t over
David Patrikarakos is a freelance journalist and author of several books, including “War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century” (Basic Books, 2017)....
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Europe’s moment of truth with China
Noah Barkin is a Berlin-based journalist and a visiting fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. For much of the past year, China has been preoccupied with its trade conflict with the United...
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In pictures: Slices of a life long lost
ZURICH — For decades, a number of old boxes of photo negatives sat in my family’s storage untouched. Aside from the photographers themselves — my great-grandfather Yakov Henkin and his elder brother...
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Labour leadership contest will be determined by the many, not the few
Rosa Prince is the author of “Comrade Corbyn, A Very Unlikely Coup” (Biteback Publishing, February 2016). For Labour Party leadership hopefuls lining up to replace Jeremy Corbyn, the party catchphrase...
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Why space tourism is still a pipe dream in Europe
STOCKHOLM — In Europe, the race to take tourists to space has slowed to more of a crawl — with the finish line far on the other side of the horizon. While in the United States, companies like Virgin...
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