Europe’s coronavirus identity crisis
Miguel Otero-Iglesias is a senior analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid. MADRID — Watching Europe’s north squabble with its south over how to mitigate the fallout from the coronavirus...
View ArticlePower struggle behind Dutch corona PR fiasco
Tom-Jan Meeus is a political columnist for NRC Handelsblad. THE HAGUE — Even for a country known for its straight-talking approach, the Dutch response to the coronavirus epidemic — and its...
View ArticleLabour Party’s reality-show election
Otto English is the pen name used by Andrew Scott, a writer and playwright based in London. LONDON — In March 2016 filming began on a Channel 4 series called “Eden” in a remote corner of the Scottish...
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Why are so many of the world’s top jobs still held by grumpy old men?
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. Whoever wins the next U.S. presidential election will be the oldest person in history to have been elected...
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The next epidemic: Resurgent populism
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. The politics of COVID-19 are more variable than the virus. In the long run, they...
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Mafia plots post-coronavirus pounce
ROME — The mafia loves a crisis. Throughout their 150-year history in the south of Italy, the country’s organized crime syndicates have turned a profit from emergencies such as earthquakes and cholera...
View ArticleWith Boris Johnson ill, Britain faces critical test
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO‘s Beyond the Bubble column. LONDON — For 10 days, Downing Street played down fears about Boris Johnson’s health...
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Prime of their lives: Downing Street in sickness and in health
LONDON — In 1916, as Britain was in the throes of a national crisis, the populist, affable David Lloyd George took office determined to get the Great War done. The new prime minister had a colorful...
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Italy looks at life after lockdown — with fear and reluctance
MILAN — In Codogno, a small town in the northwestern region of Lodi, people have been confined to their houses for more than six weeks. But many aren’t anxious to see life go back to normal — at least,...
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How coronavirus will upturn the global order
Nathalie Tocci is director of Istituto Affari Internazionali, a special adviser to European High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell, and the author of POLITICO‘s World View column. When...
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What should the EU do about Hungary?
With Europe in the grips of the coronavirus epidemic, the Hungarian parliament approved laws giving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán new powers to fight the virus and rule by decree without a set time...
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Put privacy first in tech fight against coronavirus
Julian King is former European commissioner for security. As Europe prepares for the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic, attention has naturally turned to the use of technology. Big data,...
View ArticleEurope, dare to agree with Trump (once in a while)
Marcel Dirsus is a political scientist based in Hamburg and a non-resident Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (ISPK). HAMBURG — When Donald Trump announced the United States...
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Don’t worry about another debt crisis
Carlo Cottarelli, a former head of the fiscal affairs department of the International Monetary Fund, is director of the Observatory on the Italian Public Accounts at the Catholic University of Milan....
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Coronavirus crisis: How to win the second half
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — Like an ill-disciplined football team, the EU often goes a few goals down at the start of a crisis only to...
View ArticleCoronavirus: No, we’re not at war
Michael Bröning is incoming director of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in New York, a think tank affiliated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Faced with a rising death count and a suspension...
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Greece looks for closure in trial on far right
Billy Briggs is an award-winning journalist based in the U.K. He is co-founder of investigative website The Ferret. ATHENS — Thanasis Kampagiannis, who has spent the past five years prosecuting one of...
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Quaranteen: Picturing young lives in isolation
Photographers Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni spoke with teens around the world, and made portraits of them using Zoom videoconferencing. The teenagers contributed snapshots of their lives...
View ArticleVirtual parliament only works if MPs can vote
Angus MacNeil is the Scottish National Party MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, the constituency that covers the Outer Hebrides, one of the furthest from Westminster. ISLE OF BARRA, Scotland — As the crow...
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Why Italy should ❤︎ the ESM
Nicola Rossi is a professor of political economy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a board member of Istituto Bruno Leoni, a policy think tank. Alberto Mingardi is executive director of...
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