Europe’s buried history of racism and slavery
Margareta Matache Instructor and director of the Roma Program at Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts Responding to the wave of protests following the murder of George Floyd in the United...
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Germans need to stop with the finger-wagging
This article is part of a special report: Berlin in Brussels. Michael Bröning is a political scientist, director of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in New York, and a member of the Commission for...
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The other loser in the French elections
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. CALVADOS, France — Marine Le Pen has tried to put a brave face on the results of...
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Lukashenko’s coronavirus election
Joerg Forbrig is senior fellow and director for Central and Eastern Europe at the German Marshall Fund of the United States think tank. On the surface, the political repression and police violence...
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What Sweden can teach us about coronavirus
Elisabeth Braw directs the Modern Deterrence project at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Ever since the coronavirus swept into Europe, everybody’s had an opinion...
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Italy’s problem with working women made worse by coronavirus
MILAN — Italy has never been a country for working women. And as it’s done for so many things, the coronavirus has only made things worse. With few options for affordable public child care, many new...
View ArticlePutin, the Potemkin president
Leonid Ragozin is a freelance journalist based in Riga. On paper, Vladimir Putin has won: The outcome of last week’s vote on constitutional amendments allows him to stay in power until 2036. In...
View ArticleThe strange case of Ursula von der Leyen’s Croatian kerfuffle
Sophie in’t Veld is a Dutch MEP from the Democrats 66 party, part of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. Prominent politicians from the center-right European People’s Party issuing a...
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Why the recovery fund won’t work
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO‘s Beyond the Bubble column. European leaders convening in Brussels next week have pinned their hopes on a €750...
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Italy’s ‘mother of all reforms’ will remain childless
Alberto Mingardi is director general of Istituto Bruno Leoni in Milan, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, an associate professor at IULM University in Milan and a presidential fellow at Chapman...
View ArticleIn defense of Belgium’s coronavirus response
Maggie De Block is Belgium’s minister of public health. The international press has got it wrong about Belgium and the coronavirus. Since the peak of the crisis in April, commentators from around the...
View ArticlePoland’s election matters, and not just for Poland
Zselyke Csaky is research director for Europe and Eurasia at Freedom House. Poland’s presidential election on Sunday will be pivotal for the country’s democracy. But it will also have Europe-wide...
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EU-Turkey relations are strained but we have common ground to build on
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is foreign minister of Turkey. As a candidate for EU membership, Turkey shares many of the bloc’s strategic interests and goals. Our borders are Europe’s and NATO’s external borders...
View ArticleWhat Poland tells us about the fight against populism
Maciej Kisilowski is associate professor of law and strategy at Central European University in Vienna. In the weeks leading up to Sunday’s runoff election, Poland’s neck-and-neck presidential race...
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How the EU can manage Poland’s authoritarian government
Wojciech Przybylski is editor-in-chief of Visegrad Insight and chairman of the Res Publica Foundation in Warsaw. WARSAW — Poland’s presidential election on Sunday marked a major victory for the ruling...
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The best thing Brussels can do in Bulgaria is stay out
Dimitar Bechev is a research fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic...
View ArticleUK MPs must get a say on post-Brexit trade deals — or everyone suffers
Emily Thornberry is a British Labour MP and the shadow international trade secretary. It’s not easy to rebel against your own party. At the very least, you need a thick skin for the abuse you’ll get...
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Why the EU struggles to agree on anything
Catherine E. De Vries is professor of political science at Bocconi University. MILAN — When the British voted to leave the European Union, some in Brussels saw a silver lining: At least now striking a...
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Toward an ever closer imperfect union
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO‘s Beyond the Bubble column. In moments like this, the big picture is important. But so are the niggling details....
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What EU leaders really decided on rule of law
Daniel Hegedüs is fellow for Central Europe at the German Marshall Fund of the United States After four days and nights of heated negotiations over EU spending in the wake of the coronavirus,...
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