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Ukrainian demands are testing European unity
Jamie Dettmer is Opinion Editor at POLITICO Europe. This week, the European Union is slated to endorse a seventh package of sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President...
View ArticleThe unbearable weight of egotism in Italian politics
Jamie Dettmer is Opinion Editor at POLITICO Europe. ROME — “There’s no room for personal considerations,” former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti wrote last week, appealing to Mario Draghi, his...
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Hit by drought, Italy’s agricultural heartland feels the heat
Marcello Rossi is a freelance journalist specializing in the environment and science. PAVIA, Italy — Under the scorching sun of a mid-July morning, Giovanni Daghetta walks across a dusty, barren plot...
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No lie too great
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never!” says a character in “The Master and Margarita,” Mikhail Bulgakov’s grimly satirical...
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The great sanctions debate
Will the West’s stinging economic sanctions on Russia work? Will they get Russian President Vladimir Putin to finally see reason and force him to quit his war on Ukraine? In the last few weeks, the...
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A visa ban won’t accomplish what Ukraine wants
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. In 1976, the dissident Russian writer Vladimir Bukovsky arrived in London. His opposition to the Communists had started at an early age, being...
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Raising Lebanon from the ashes
Fadi Chehadé is co-CEO of Ethos Capital and was recently honored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a Great Immigrant. He served as a fellow at both the Harvard and Oxford schools of...
View ArticleStuck in the middle on Ukraine, Africa needs a new Mandela
Ivor Ichikowitz is an industrialist and philanthropist. He is the chair of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, which paid for the installation of the Mandela mural in Kyiv. Over the streets of Kyiv, a...
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The cost of Ukraine’s de-Russification
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Wars transform nations and people — leaving them, whether victorious or vanquished, “all changed, changed utterly,” as Irish writer W.B. Yeats...
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Ukraine’s long-standing fight for freedom
Larissa Kosmos is a Ukrainian-American writer. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and in other various outlets. She also works as a...
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What Russia’s schoolchildren are being taught about Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Vladimir Lenin once bragged: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Russian President Vladimir...
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Why Putin could forgive Yeltsin but not Gorbachev
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. This weekend, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, will be laid to rest in the same central Moscow cemetery where Russia’s first...
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How to spend Europe’s defense bonanza intelligently
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. SANTANDER, Spain — Josep Borrell, the European Union’s High Representative for common foreign, security and...
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Rohingya: A life lived in limbo
Cate Blanchett is an actor and a global goodwill ambassador for UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency. Gul Zahar, a young Rohingya woman, was forced to flee her home in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State....
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Why Britain is broken
James Snell is a widely published writer and a senior adviser on Special Initiatives at the New Lines Institute. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for...
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The short unhappy life of Elizabeth Windsor
THE SHORT, UNHAPPYLIFE OF ELIZABETH WINDSOR To provide the United Kingdom with the monarch she felt it needed,Queen Elizabeth II sacrificed an ordinary life and the other things most of us take for...
View ArticleEurope’s leaders need to get a grip
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The current economic challenges facing Western economies are greater than anything we’ve seen in living memory, and they hold out the prospect of...
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Mistruss in the UK’s future
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — Like a band that only knows two tunes, the overwhelmingly white, male and elderly membership of...
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Queen’s funeral: Nothing has been left to chance
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I, died on March 24, 1603, ending the first Elizabethan age, a monumental era in England’s history. Her reign of 44...
View ArticleMacron, between a rock and a hard place
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO’s Beyond the Bubble column. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. In a striking trio of speeches last month, French...
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