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Europe’s next crisis: The geopolitical Commission
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO‘s Beyond the Bubble column. Over the past few years, the European Union’s major political fault lines have...
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Independent Scotland will need more than ‘empathy’
Kirsty Hughes is director of the Scottish Centre on European Relations. EDINBURGH — On Sunday, former European Council President Donald Tusk said Brussels would surely be full of empathy and enthusiasm...
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Ireland’s never been more alone in the EU
Eoin Drea is senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and a research fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. Forget the furor about the rise of Ireland’s left-wing Sinn...
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Scottish nationalists’ biggest worry is policy, not scandal
GLASGOW — There is no good time to lose your finance minister. For the Scottish National Party, the resignation of Derek Mackay on Thursday — hours before he was supposed to unveil the Scottish...
View ArticleDon’t trust Hungary’s conservative greenwashing
Dávid Dorosz Deputy mayor of Budapest for climate and development Budapest, Hungary In her op-ed, “Time for a Christian conservative Green policy” (January 27), Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga...
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Europe needs boots on the ground in Libya
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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Student arrest reignites Italian-Egyptian tensions
ROME — The abduction of an Egyptian researcher has sparked serious concern in Italy, where authorities fear a repeat of the brutal murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni. Patrick Zaki, a 27-year-old...
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Merkel’s next successor might be a bust
Thorsten Benner is director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin and a member of the global board of More in Common. BERLIN — Don’t blame Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer for the crisis...
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Sweden’s lonely boxing match with Beijing
VÄSTERÅS, Sweden — On a recent weekday in the Swedish industrial town of Västerås, about an hour’s drive west from Stockholm, Mayor Anders Teljebäck admitted defeat. The municipal council had just...
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How Angela Merkel blew it
Alexander Clarkson is a lecturer in European studies at King’s College London. It could all have been so different. A little over a year ago, it seemed Angela Merkel had pulled it off again. The German...
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China’s weak spot
Jacob Mardell is a researcher at the Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies (MERICS). ZHARKENT, Kazakhstan — China may be winning diplomatic contests and wielding more global influence, but closer to...
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European defense plans: What could possibly go wrong?
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. PARIS — The EU now has a “geopolitical European Commission,” a shared determination to take more responsibility for...
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Boris Johnson, the new Caligula
Otto English is the pen name used by Andrew Scott, a writer and playwright based in London. LONDON — In AD 39, as Rome plunged into a political and financial crisis, Emperor Gaius decided to build a...
View ArticleEurope may be the world’s AI referee, but referees don’t win
Guntram Wolff is director of the Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel. The European Commission’s Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager has been tasked with developing a European strategy on...
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The not-so-secret sex lives of French politicians
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. PARIS — France feels violated. Or rather, part of France feels violated: political...
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Critics need to wise up and listen on UK immigration
Will Tanner is director of the think tank Onward. LONDON — It should surprise no one that the U.K. government’s proposals for a points-based immigration system have attracted opprobrium from the Labour...
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Stop calling far-right terrorists ‘crazy’
Cynthia Miller-Idriss is professor of education and sociology at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Her most recent book, “Hate...
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Mario Monti: Don’t let the ‘frugals’ rule the budget
Mario Monti is a former Italian prime minister and economy and finance minister, and a former European commissioner. Charles Michel has hit the ground running. Since taking office on December 1, the...
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How Brexit could undermine human rights in Cambodia
Charles Dunst is an associate at LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics’ foreign policy think tank. LONDON — As Britain uncouples from the European Union, one potential blind spot threatens to spoil...
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On the French border, drowning in a sea of trash
Katy Lee is a freelance journalist based between Paris and London, and host of the award-winning podcast “The Europeans.” RÉDANGE, France — In the sleepy town of Rédange, near the French border with...
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