European values are not for sale
Manfred Weber is chairman of the European People’s Party Group in the European Parliament. Iratxe García Pérez is president of the S&D Group. Dacian Cioloș is president of the Renew Europe Group....
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In Italy, portraits of young lives put on hold
With more than 36,000 deaths so far — and an infection rate that is again ticking upward — Italy is far from done with the coronavirus crisis. It was the first country in Europe to lock down when the...
View ArticleWhy Europe’s recovery plan won’t work — unless it tackles corruption first
Ioana Petrescu is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and a former Romanian finance minister. Plans cooked up in Brussels tend to...
View ArticleGermany overcame its history. Why can’t Poland?
William Echikson is director of the European Union for Progressive Judaism office in Brussels. Three and a half decades ago, I met a young German diplomat in Paris. His name was a mouthful: Arndt...
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Why thousands are fighting the Bulgarian government: ‘They have no vision for...
SOFIA — Since the beginning of July, a wave of anti-government protests has rocked Bulgaria. Thousands have taken to the streets to protest rampant corruption and a deterioration in the rule of law,...
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Italy’s unlikely pop leftist
Giulia Blasi is a writer and activist based in Rome, and the author of the feminist primer “Manuale per ragazze rivoluzionarie” (Rizzoli, 2018) and “Rivoluzione Z” (Rizzoli, 2020). ROME — As Italian...
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No more Mr. Nice Europe
Hans Kribbe is author of “The Strongmen: European Encounters with Sovereign Power” (Agenda Publishing, 2020). Some 15 years ago, European Commission President Romano Prodi proposed a vision of Europe...
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In cod we trust: How fish became such a Brexit problem
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. PARIS — Forget the loaves. With a Brexit cliff edge looming, the question is who...
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Forget London, Brexit fight is about Paris and Berlin
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO‘s Beyond the Bubble column. This week’s crunch European Council summit on Brexit isn’t a showdown between the...
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Any Brexit deal is better than no deal
PARIS — Despite the mantra on both sides that “no deal is better than a bad deal,” almost any agreement on future trade relations between the U.K. and the EU would be better than none. As the tortuous...
View ArticleFlanders’ dark stain
Othman El Hammouchi is a Flemish author and columnist based near Brussels. There is something rotten at the heart of Belgium. For decades, the country has used its particular position — as the...
View ArticleThere’s no hiding Brexit impact in coronavirus recession
Raoul Ruparel was the prime minister’s special adviser on Europe under Theresa May and was directly involved in Brexit negotiations for three years. Last year he predicted how a Brexit deal would be...
View ArticleDon’t stop saving ‘zombie’ jobs
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. PARIS — Across Europe, finance ministries are pressing to phase out the furlough schemes that have kept workers idled...
View ArticleFlanders is no racist ‘stain’
Assita KankoMember of the European Parliament for the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA)Brussels, Belgium In his op-ed “Flanders’ dark stain” (October 17), contributor Othman El Hammouchi claims that...
View ArticleItaly’s wasted summer
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 ArticleOn Islam, Macron’s no hard-liner
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. On October 16, a French teacher was beheaded in the street outside his school by...
View ArticleHow to minimize the impact of the coronavirus on the economy
The coronavirus pandemic is bad for business. Local lockdowns, restrictions on social gatherings and travel disruptions have slowed economic activity, cut off supply chains and forced companies to...
View ArticleWhy Erdoğan’s attacks on France will backfire
Agathe Demarais is global forecasting director at the Economist Intelligence Unit. She previously worked as a diplomat for the French Treasury in Russia and the Middle East. As France grapples with...
View ArticleFor Poland’s ruling party, waging war against women pays off
Edit Zgut is a fellow at the German Marshall Fund and at Visegrad Insight. WARSAW — The Polish government is at war — and happily so. Following a Constitutional Court decision last week to impose new...
View ArticleFive ways to save the United Kingdom
James Johnson is co-founder of J.L. Partners and a senior adviser to Kekst CNC. He previously ran polling in Downing Street under Prime Minister Theresa May. In the spring of 2017, I spent two days in...
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