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12 Americans who tried to ruin the British monarchy
LONDON — For those privileged enough to live under a British monarch, it can be a struggle to grasp quite how grim life must be for the 7.5 billion human beings who are not. Yes, of course, we Brits...
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Poland’s autocratic government is at it again
Wojciech Sadurski is professor of jurisprudence at the University of Sydney, professor at the University of Warsaw’s Centre for Europe, and visiting professor of law at Yale Law School. He is the...
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Putin’s game in the Middle East
The Middle East has a new kingmaker. For a quarter-century after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia was almost entirely absent from the region. Today, it has become a top player, with a formidable...
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Erdoğan: Road to peace in Libya goes through Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is president of Turkey. ANKARA — Libya has been grappling with a bloody civil war for almost a decade. And yet, so far, the international community has failed to live up to its...
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Space: Not the final frontier, but the new Wild West
Sarah Cruddas is a journalist, TV host and author specialized on the commercial space sector. She tweets at @sarahcruddas. Space is not just the final frontier; it’s also big business. The potential...
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The price of France’s bizarre union landscape
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. PARIS — Charles de Gaulle famously complained that it was impossible to govern a...
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Hack-proofing the EU’s banks
Guntram Wolff is director of the think tank Bruegel. When European leaders, back in 2012, embarked on an ambitious plan to create a truly pan-continental financial system, they overlooked one important...
View ArticleMoscow’s Holocaust revisionism
Mateusz Morawiecki is the prime minister of Poland. WARSAW — As the world commemorates 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, Russia is trying to rewrite history. Far from being a “liberator,” the...
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The battle for the Vatican
ROME — When Benedict XVI resigned as pope in 2013, he vowed to spend his retirement in contemplation and prayer — and not to interfere with the papacy of this successor, Pope Francis. Benedict’s papal...
View ArticleWhy EU should ban Hezbollah
Richard A. Grenell is U.S. ambassador to Germany. BERLIN — In one of its last acts of 2019, the German parliament called on the government to ban Hezbollah. Recent developments show the government is...
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Germany’s double-standard racism
Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist based in London. LONDON — Many Germans will, no doubt, bristle at the idea that, as Ai Weiwei put it in a recent interview...
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Time for a Christian conservative Green policy
Judit Varga is minister of justice of Hungary. BUDAPEST — Green parties have been making gains, particularly in Western Europe, as awareness about the urgency of the need to fight climate change grows....
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Macron wins a battle, but faces long war over reforms
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. PARIS — More than 50 days of protest, a modern record, have failed to destroy...
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Europe adrift in a Trump world
Robert Malley is president & CEO of the International Crisis Group. No wonder Europe is struggling to find its voice. Never mind the Brexit drama, rise of right-wing populism and internal...
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Who will replace Putin?
MOSCOW — The race to become the next Russian president has already begun. The constitutional changes Vladimir Putin announced earlier this month raised more questions than they answered, but they...
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A British MEP’s lessons for a post-Brexit EU
Magid Magid is a British Green MEP and former mayor of Sheffield. When I was a mere Brussels-bubble baby, I published in these pages my honest first impressions. It got me a lot of attention from...
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Time for EPP to kick out Viktor Orbán
Petri Sarvamaa is an MEP for Finland’s National Coalition Party, part of the European People’s Party and the Budgetary Control Committee rapporteur for the rule of law mechanism. Most of us agree that...
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How Britain rejoins the EU — in a decade’s time
Ian Dunt is editor of Politics.co.uk and the author of “Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?” (Canbury Press, 2016). His new book, “How To Be A Liberal,” comes out in 2020. LONDON — The best way for...
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Three ways Brexit makes Britain stronger
Suella Braverman is a Conservative member of the British parliament and a former Brexit minister. LONDON — Brexit is the honest fulfillment of a promise. In leaving the EU this week, we can fairly...
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UK Brexit secretary: It’s time to write the next chapter
Steve Barclay is the United Kingdom’s secretary of state for exiting the European Union. LONDON — It’s difficult to overstate today’s significance. As we mark the United Kingdom’s historic departure...
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