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Coronavirus brings summer of discontent for Europe’s young people
For Generation Z, the summer of 2020 has been “wack” — meaning it stunk. Young Europeans realize that older people face far greater health risks from the coronavirus, and everyone has struggled with...
View ArticleBelarus crackdown’s next victim: Its booming IT sector
Franak Viačorka is a journalist and analyst based in Minsk. He is a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and vice president of DigiComNet. MINSK — For years, there was an unspoken contract...
View ArticleNo ‘chaos’ at the European Economic and Social Committee
Luca Jahier President, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Brussels, Belgium I wish to respond to the article published Tuesday, “Chaos at EU body after official refuses to resign over...
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‘It’s a miracle’: In Venice, cinema takes first steps out of isolation
VENICE — Walking the streets of the Lido and reading the papers on the first day of the Venice Film Festival, everyone appears to be pinching themselves, wondering whether it is really happening. Six...
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Lukashenko is no longer president of Belarus
Linas Linkevičius is Lithuanian minister of foreign affairs. VILNIUS — The crisis in Belarus goes far beyond the violent aftermath of its presidential election in August. For decades, under Alexander...
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Phil Hogan’s exit shows Ireland’s vibrant political culture has its costs
Stephen Rae is the former group editor-in-chief at INM, Ireland’s largest media group. He is now principal at Kobn.ie, Leaders Advisory. He is also a media investor and consultant. DUBLIN — Ireland was...
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Extinction Rebellion’s hometown pushes the radical into the mainstream
Sara Stefanini is a communications adviser for the climate campaign Mission 2020. STROUD, England — When the history of 21st century environmentalism is written, this no-frills, post-industrial town in...
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The racist myth of France’s ‘descent into savagery’
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. PARIS — A new word has entered France’s political lexicon: “ensauvagement.” Or...
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Trump’s Kosovo show: No big deal
Majda Ruge is a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations. BERLIN — Despite the unpredictability that surrounded the negotiations, one thing was...
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Why Europe, not Trump, should buy Greenland
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. PARIS — The scramble for Greenland is heating up, pitting the United States against China for influence in the giant,...
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Misery in Moria is Europe’s migration policy
Daniel Howden is a migration expert and managing director of the investigative journalism organization Lighthouse Reports. ATHENS — Five years ago, when the refugee camp at Moria was still just a bad...
View ArticlePoland has a credibility problem in Belarus
Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach is a Belarusian journalist and program coordinator at Free Press Unlimited. WARSAW — Poland is trying to reinstate its role as chief promoter of democracy in Belarus, but its...
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China isn’t Europe’s ‘partner’ on climate
This article is part of the series Facing China. Dalibor Rohac is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. In its strategic documents, the European Union describes China simultaneously...
View ArticleEurope said ‘never again.’ Why is it silent on Uighur genocide?
Dolkun Isa is the president of the World Uyghur Congress. MUNICH — Over the past three years, the Chinese government has subjected the Uighur people to one atrocity after another in a ruthless attempt...
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Ignore Washington: That’s Europe’s China strategy
This article is part of the series Facing China. Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She runs New Horizons project, a strategy, analysis and advisory company. As European leaders...
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Why China’s Xi Jinping is the world’s most dangerous man
This article is part of the series Facing China. Michael Schuman is the author of “Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World” (PublicAffairs, 2020). HONG KONG — It’s all too easy to...
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Systemic rivals: How China’s Belt and Road challenges the EU
This article is part of the series Facing China. Bruno Maçães, a former Europe minister for Portugal, is a senior adviser at Flint Global in London and the author most recently of “History Has Begun:...
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Navalny poisoning shows why Putin’s pipeline must be stopped
Konrad Szymański is Poland’s minister for European affairs. WARSAW — For anyone in the West who believed in the possibility of “normal” relations with Moscow, the poisoning of Russian opposition leader...
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Bulgaria — and Borissov — have passed the point of no return
James W. Pardew is a former U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria (2002-2005), deputy assistant secretary-general for operations at NATO and career U.S. Army Intelligence officer. He is the author of...
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Ursula von der Leyen’s speech shows English still dominates
Tim King writes POLITICO‘s Brussels Sketch. The British have departed, but their language grows ever more dominant in European Union circles. Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech was an...
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