In Europe, they’re burning witches again
Samanth Subramanian’s new book, “A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane,” will be published by Atlantic Books UK in August. CAMBRIDGE, England — All over...
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Don’t save the economy. Change the economy.
Dennis J. Snower is president of the Global Solutions Initiative and professor of macroeconomics and sustainability at the Hertie School. BERLIN — The coronavirus pandemic will change the world, and...
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The leader of Belarus is using the coronavirus crisis to troll Putin
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. MOSCOW — Belarus’ football team Dinamo Brest was, until recently, a minor squad in an obscure Eastern...
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Merkel’s milestone moment
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — She did it! In the twilight of her chancellorship, Angela Merkel has secured her place in the pantheon of...
View ArticleLockdown politics just got hairy
Euny Hong is a journalist and the author, most recently of “The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success” (Penguin, 2019). She has lived and worked in the U.S., France, Korea and...
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Italian PM: Franco-German recovery deal is not enough
Giuseppe Conte is the prime minister of Italy. ROME — The French and German proposal for a €500 billion coronavirus recovery fund is a bold and significant step toward a common European Union response...
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In pictures: NHS workers fighting to keep a COVID-19 ward safe
The young filmmaker Hassan Akkad landed in London in late 2015, ending a harrowing journey from his war-torn home of Syria — footage from which would go on to win a BAFTA award. Quite a welcome party....
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China flexes its trade muscles
Charles Dunst is an associate at LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics’ foreign policy think tank. No matter how you look at it, China’s treatment of Australia during the coronavirus crisis is a...
View ArticleThis isn’t Europe’s ‘Hamilton’ moment
Sony Kapoor is managing director of Re-Define, an international think tank. OSLO — The Franco-German plan for a €500 billion “recovery fund” has been welcomed with superlatives such as “Hamiltonian,”...
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Bistro to bust: Brussels’ restaurants fear (sanitized) ‘new normal’
Bloodbath. Carnage. Massacre. For many restaurant and bar owners in Brussels, the lifting of lockdown measures feels less like a return to normal life than a death sentence. Faced with sanitary...
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How Merkel caved to Macron
Josef Joffe serves on the editorial council of Die Zeit in Hamburg. He is also distinguished fellow of Stanford’s Hoover Institution. HAMBURG — Once the uncrowned empress of Europe, Angela Merkel has...
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Driving blind: Cummings comes full circle
LONDON — It was an unprecedented press conference in every way, not least because the government’s own code of conduct for special advisers states that they “must not take part in public political...
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The unequal epidemic
Muddassar Ahmed is a former adviser to the British government, a visiting fellow at German Marshall Fund and patron of the Faiths Forum for London. LONDON — Several weeks into the lockdown that has...
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First in, last out: Why Lombardy is still Italy’s coronavirus hotspot
MILAN — Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Italian region of Lombardy has made headlines for all the wrong reasons: overwhelmed hospitals, health care workers performing wartime-like...
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Lessons from coronavirus: Not all jobs are ‘bullshit’
David Graeber is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory” (Simon & Schuster, 2018). LONDON — Crises tend to reveal unacknowledged truths....
View ArticleRecovery fund: Everything depends on what happens next
Moritz Schularick is a professor of economics at the University of Bonn and a fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. NEW YORK — Is this the European Union’s “Hamilton moment,” a watershed...
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Ukraine’s trapped migrant workers look for roads back to Europe
KYIV — Across Europe, lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic have walled countries off from the foreign labor on which they typically rely, leaving them scrambling to find workers to...
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Matteo Salvini’s coronavirus slump
ROME — A year ago, Matteo Salvini seemed invincible. Fans queued round the corner for selfies with the then-interior minister. His far-right League was by far the country’s most popular political...
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In Europe, we also can’t breathe
Yassine Boubout is a Brussels-based law student and activist. The protests that have flared up across the world in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis are heartening: They are...
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Israel: The annexation nation
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — Too much history, not enough geography. British philosopher Isaiah Berlin’s aphorism about the plight of the...
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