Former UK ambassador to US: Nationalism is not the answer
Kim Darroch is the former U.K. ambassador to the United States. The following is an edited excerpt from “Collateral Damage: Britain, America, and Europe in the Age of Trump” (William Collins, 2020),...
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On Lesvos, locals and migrants fear ‘another Moria’
LESVOS, Greece — On the surface, Europe appears to have woken up to the urgent humanitarian crisis on Greece’s islands. In the aftermath of the fire that burned Moria — Europe’s biggest refugee camp on...
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Why Australia fails to protect its heritage
Julia Hurst is part of the Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration and a lecturer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander history at the University of Melbourne. MELBOURNE — The land now known as...
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Why Putin hasn’t won the game in Belarus
MOSCOW — As protests continue to rock Belarus, the country’s beleaguered strongman Alexander Lukashenko has turned East. Fighting for his political survival, the Belarusian president is trying to frame...
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This old house: Austria torn over what to do with Hitler’s birthplace
BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria — For years, Austria has wrestled with an uncomfortable question: What do you do with the house where Adolf Hitler was born? From the outside, there is nothing that catches your...
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Von der Leyen is weak on rule of law
R. Daniel Kelemen is professor of political science and law at Rutgers University. In her first State of the Union speech, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen laid out ambitious plans on...
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Trump’s ‘virtual reality’ foreign policy
Cornelius Adebahr is an independent analyst and consultant working on European foreign policy, including for Carnegie Europe. He is the author of “Europe and Iran: The Nuclear Deal and Beyond”...
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Stop discriminating against economic migrants
Stefan Schlegel is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the law faculty of the University of Bern, Switzerland who specializes in refugee and immigration law. The migrants trapped in the...
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2020: The year diplomacy died
PARIS — This week’s virtual United Nations General Assembly could be a metaphor for the decline of diplomacy and of efforts to maintain a rules-based international order instead of the law of the...
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No one cares about your baby pictures. Except China.
Elisabeth Braw directs the Modern Deterrence project at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. LONDON — It’s time to revive Britain’s Word War II-era warning: “You never...
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For young exiles, guarded hope for change in Belarus
Known as the “last dictatorship” in Europe, for decades Belarus has been caught in a tug-of-war between Russia — its former imperial master — and the West. Since 1994, its president, Alexander...
View ArticleA newspaperman like no other
Tunku Varadarajan is a fellow at the New York Law School’s Classical Liberal Institute. He was a leader writer at the London Times from 1993-96, and its New York Bureau Chief from 1997-99. On my first...
View ArticleWhy Ukraine loves Joe Biden
Askold Krushelnycky is a Ukrainian freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON — Since gaining independence in 1991, Ukraine has thought of America as its best — and most valuable —...
View ArticleBoris Johnson has run out of rope
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO‘s Beyond the Bubble column. There’s a reason Boris Johnson shows little respect for the traditional rules of the...
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US power vacuum risks escalating violence in Armenia-Azerbaijan
Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe and author of “Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War.” More than two decades after it was signed, the cease-fire agreement...
View ArticleOn foreign policy, EU has to speak up — even if it’s not with one voice
Nathalie Tocci is director of Istituto Affari Internazionali, a special adviser to European High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell, an independent member of the board of directors of Eni...
View ArticleWhy the fight for Catalan independence isn’t over yet
Carles Puigdemont is a member of the European Parliament and former president of Catalonia (January 2016 — October 2017). Three years after Catalonia held a historic referendum on self-determination,...
View ArticleBelgian milestone: A first trans minister and nobody cares
Katrin Hugendubel is advocacy director at ILGA-Europe. The appointment of Petra De Sutter as Belgium’s deputy prime minister — the first out transgender minister in Europe — is a milestone. But what is...
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After the virus, the trauma
MILAN — Elena, a single mother of three living in northern Italy, nearly lost her life to the coronavirus — without ever being infected. Even before the pandemic, Elena found that financially...
View ArticleEthiopia’s commitment to reform not in question
Ayele Lire Jijamo Minister plenipotentiary at the Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Brussels, Belgium While we appreciate the interest a media outlet like POLITICO has taken in...
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