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The loneliest goodbye: The big Irish ‘send-off’ bows to coronavirus
Karen McHugh is an Irish journalist who writes on public transport, cities and culture. DUBLIN — They say the Irish “do death well.” But for people mourning the dead now, in the middle of the...
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Macron, the lonely Europeanist
William Drozdiak is nonresident senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at The Brookings Institution and the author of “The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron’s Race to...
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The revolt of the white-haired
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — Some days it feels as if the coronavirus, or society’s response to it, is about to cancel the future for my...
View ArticleHow Italy’s ‘Little China’ dodged the coronavirus
ROME — With the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe, the medieval city of Prato, near Florence, was predicted by many at the start of the COVID-19 epidemic to be the most likely place...
View ArticleHow to help Africa weather the coronavirus storm
Mark Harper, a former U.K. government chief whip and minister of state for immigration, is the MP for the Forest of Dean. LONDON — As many of Europe’s hardest-hit countries plan their exits from strict...
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The ‘silent massacre’ in Italy’s nursing homes
MILAN — The last time Renato Lambranzi saw his mother was in late February, the day her nursing home closed its doors to visitors in response to a growing number of coronavirus cases in the area. Not...
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Sweden’s chance to heal ‘open wound’ of former PM’s murder
STOCKHOLM — Sweden may finally get an answer to the question that has nagged its psyche for more than 30 years: What happened the night of February 28, 1986? Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme had been...
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Cruel Britannia: Coronavirus lays waste to British exceptionalism
LONDON — As the coronavirus rips through Europe and the world, Britain’s response to the pandemic has shown it’s suffering from another dangerous disease: unshakeable belief in its own exceptionalism....
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The Western Balkans belong with Europe
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. ROME —...
View ArticleWhat’s behind China’s new behavior in Europe
Janka Oertel is director of the Asia program at the European Council on Foreign Relations. In the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Europe has become an unexpected battleground for a different...
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Commission’s magical thinking won’t save us from the coronavirus crisis
Luis Garicano, Valérie Hayer and Guy Verhofstadt are MEPs with the Renew Europe group. They sit in the economic, budgets and constitutional affairs committees, respectively. Germans judges clipped the...
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Coronavirus: France’s ‘strange defeat’
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. Even in exceptional times France finds new ways to be exceptional. According to a...
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Social etiquette for the new normal
Marie Le Conte is a freelance journalist based in London and the author of “Haven’t You Heard…? Gossip, power and how politics really works.” LONDON — It’s finally happening: Weeks after tens of...
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Breaking journalism’s bad habits
Ulrik Haagerup is CEO and founder of the Constructive Institute, an independent organization promoting constructive journalism. AARHUS, Denmark — The coronavirus pandemic is putting journalism to the...
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Snake oil, quackery and deglobalization
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — If the coronavirus doesn’t break the world economy, then some of the cures being dreamed up by politicians...
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The EU is undermining its democracies while funding its autocracies
R. Daniel Kelemen is professor of political science and law at Rutgers University. Jacob Soll is university professor and professor of philosophy, history and accounting at the University of Southern...
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How New Zealand beat the coronavirus
Konstantin Richter is a contributing writer at POLITICO. He is the author of the German-language novel, “The Chancellor: A Fiction,” about Angela Merkel and the refugee crisis. AUCKLAND, New Zealand —...
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What’s fueling Korea’s coronavirus success — and relapse
Michael Breen is the author of “The New Koreans” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017). SEOUL — You’d think South Koreans would all have COVID-19 by now. With a population almost as big as England’s in combined...
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Get ready for a two-speed recovery
Megan Greene is economist and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. The coronavirus crisis is what economists call a symmetric shock. While some countries have seen higher death tolls than...
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Italy’s ‘boys’ club’ politics shuts women out of coronavirus debate
MILAN — Women are overwhelmingly on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. And yet, in Italy, when it comes to engineering an exit from lockdown, they’ve had a hard time getting heard. Women make...
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