Why Macron will vote for Biden
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO’s Beyond the Bubble column. Except for the odd populist leader here or there, most of Europe is quietly hoping...
View ArticleFrance’s dangerous religion of secularism
Farhad Khosrokhavar is studies director at EHHS, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris. PARIS — Another string of jihadist attacks has shaken France. The most recent, at a...
View ArticleEurope, don’t let Biden clip your wings
Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She runs New Horizons project, a strategy, analysis and advisory company. Hard as it may be for Brussels to admit, Donald Trump has been good...
View ArticleEurope still needs America
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is Germany’s defense minister. BERLIN — For people of my generation, the United States is, more than anything else, still the country of hope and horizons, of liberty and...
View ArticleFrance’s secularism means freedom and protection for all
Gabriel Attal is a junior minister and French government spokesperson. France defends religious freedom, and each citizen enjoys the freedom to believe or not to believe. The precondition for...
View ArticleTime for Europe to move past ‘pax Americana’
Franziska BrantnerGerman Green party spokesperson for EU affairs in the BundestagBerlin, Germany In her recent op-ed for POLITICO, “Europe still needs America” (November 2), German Defense Minister...
View ArticleEye of the storm: Lombardy faces second COVID-19 nightmare
MILAN — In the capital of Italy’s northern Lombardy region, those who live near hospitals have started counting ambulance sirens again. Until a few weeks ago, it seemed Italy might be spared the...
View ArticleIt is not up to Poland to ‘overcome’ its WWII history
Szymon Andrzej Szynkowski vel SękSecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign AffairsWarsaw, Poland In his opinion piece “Germany overcame its history. Why can’t Poland?” (October 8) contributor...
View ArticleChina’s unpopularity problem
Elisabeth Braw is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Since the coronavirus pandemic, China has shifted into high gear when it comes to PR. But its efforts — including, most...
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That’s the sound of 75 million Americans exhaling
On a day that started with U.S. President Donald Trump heading to Virginia for a round of golf and ended with his opponents, the Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, delivering victory speeches,...
View ArticleThe US election’s other loser: European populists
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. PARIS — However narrow and contested, Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential election will have a salutary...
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Who hasn’t met Biden?
If Donald Trump was an unknown quantity on the world political stage, his successor is anything but. Serving two terms as vice president under Barack Obama, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden spent eight...
View ArticleWhy Biden’s victory may be a diplomatic coup for Ireland
Stephen Rae is the former Group Editor-in-Chief at INM, Ireland’s largest media company. He is now principal at Kobn.ie, Leaders Advisory. He is also a media investor and consultant. DUBLIN — The...
View ArticleRussia’s win in Nagorno-Karabakh is EU’s loss
Nicu Popescu is director of the Wider Europe program at the European Council of Foreign Relations. After six weeks of fighting over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh — and several failed...
View ArticleEurope must unite to beat coronavirus
Sanna Marin is Prime Minister of Finland. The only way to save our economy is by defeating the virus. The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is putting serious strain on health care systems across...
View ArticleChina’s promise: ‘A free market for unfree people’
Andrew A. Michta is the dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. The views expressed here are his own. For three...
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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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