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Keep it simple, scientists
Guglielmo Briscese is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago Poverty Lab of the Harris School of Public Policy. He was previously head of employment and labor markets at the U.K....
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Sweden’s lockdown paradox
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No time for Europe to go wobbly
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. Her...
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Sweden’s chance to heal ‘open wound’ of former PM’s murder
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Europe’s existential recovery fund battle
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He raped a 12-year-old girl. They built him a statue.
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The Churchill factor: Boris Johnson would rather everyone talked about Winston
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View ArticleNo place for anti-LGBTQ discrimination in Europe
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View ArticleCan democracies beat climate change?
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Belgium’s other racism problem
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Italy’s far right has a new rising star
MILAN — Six months ago, Matteo Salvini could not have imagined that the biggest threat to his leadership of the far-right League party would be one of his closest allies. But as the coronavirus...
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Hey, big spender! EU prepares to splash the cash
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — It took the coronavirus crisis to persuade the European Union — and especially its German paymaster — that...
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4 ways #BrusselsSoWhite can fight racism
Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She runs New Horizons project, a strategy, analysis and advisory company. The European Union is finally ready to talk about racism. It must...
View ArticleEU’s two-faced Balkans strategy
Teresa Reiter is head of communications at the European Forum Alpbach and a former policy adviser on foreign and European affairs, defense, migration and development cooperation in the Austrian...
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Merkel’s Germany will outlast her
This article is part of a special report: Berlin in Brussels. Judy Dempsey is editor in chief of Strategic Europe, the blog of Carnegie Europe, and author of the book “Das Phänomen Merkel”...
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