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Anger and ‘fatigue’ on Greek islands over migration limbo
Patrick Strickland is a freelance journalist based in Athens. CHIOS, Greece — For most of Europe, the migration crisis that spiked in 2015 is a fading memory. For locals and asylum seekers on Greece’s...
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The problem with democracy: Kids and their phones
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. PARIS — Citizens in the smartphone era are falling out of love with democracy. Partly, that’s due to the failure of...
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The Middle East’s pandemic future
Michael Knights is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. As the coronavirus outbreak has spread internationally, the world’s attention has focused on China, the country...
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Orbán’s next move: Overpowering the courts
Zeljko Jovanovic is director of the Roma Initiatives Office at the Open Society Foundations. Viktor Orbán is taking his campaign for total control of Hungary to a new level. The Hungarian prime...
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Britain plays hardball in Brexit trade talks
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. PARIS — The Europeans came prepared to play three-dimensional chess, but the British seem to have shown up dressed to...
View ArticleEducation not the issue in Hungarian court case
Zoltán Kovács Secretary of State for International Communication and Relations Budapest, Hungary In his recent opinion piece “Orbán’s next move: Overpowering the courts,” Zeljko Jovanovic, director of...
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Sanders and Trump stare into their graves
Altitude is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris, offering weekly perspective on politics in a moment of radical disruption. Joe Biden dug two big holes on Super Tuesday and each of them...
View ArticleBlame Europe, not just Turkey, for migration deal collapse
Kati Piri is a Dutch MEP and vice-president of the Socialists & Democrats group. She was the European Parliament’s rapporteur on Turkey’s EU membership from 2014 to 2019. When Turkish President...
View ArticleHow the EU can put gender on the agenda
Elena Bonetti is Italian minister for equal opportunities and family. Marlène Schiappa is French secretary of state on gender equality and the fight against discrimination. Dacian Cioloș is president...
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Don’t count out von der Leyen yet
Tim King writes POLITICO‘s Brussels Sketch. When Ursula von der Leyen was seeking the endorsement of the European Parliament to become president of the European Commission, she promised certain...
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Theresa May’s other legacy
Rosa Prince is the author of “Theresa May, the Enigmatic Prime Minister” (Biteback Publishing, 2017) and “Comrade Corbyn” (Biteback Publishing, 2016). LONDON — The history books are likely to remember...
View ArticleHow to protect Europe’s jobs from coronavirus
Luis Garicano is vice president and economics spokesman of Renew Europe and head of Spain’s Ciudadanos delegation in the European Parliament. The coronavirus that is sweeping across Europe is here to...
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Beyond blackmail at the Greek-Turkish border
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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Italy needs Europe’s help
Maurizio Massari is the Italian permanent representative to the European Union. The coronavirus crisis is not just a national crisis. It’s a European crisis, and it needs to be treated as such....
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Why isn’t Belgium in lockdown?
Marco Bresolin is a Brussels-based EU correspondent for the Italian newspaper La Stampa. On Wednesday night, I sent an email to the school in Brussels my son goes to. He would no longer be attending, I...
View ArticleA relapsed Soviet’s guide to surviving coronavirus shortages
Step aside, capitalists, let this relapsed Soviet teach you how it’s done. Pulling out knives over toilet paper, stampeding in supermarkets? You’re out of control, and you’re going to get us all...
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Lagarde’s corona blunder
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — Christine Lagarde was supposed to be The Great Communicator. But the European Central Bank president sent...
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Coronavirus could break the EU
Dalibor Rohac is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and tweets at @DaliborRohac. The European Union may have survived Brexit, the refugee crisis and the...
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What’s wrong with the UK’s approach to coronavirus
Ian Donald is an emeritus professor of psychological sciences at the University of Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, England — I did not expect to get the reaction I did when I wrote a Twitter thread last Friday...
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Is Europe ready for a Democratic US president?
Max Bergmann, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, served in the State Department from 2011 to 2017. He is the author of the recent report “Embrace the EU: A New Progressive Approach...
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