The decorativeness of Britain’s House of Windsor
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. As one carefully choreographed farewell event to Queen Elizabeth II segues seamlessly into the next, there have been no end to commentators...
View ArticleThe West must slam the door on Putin’s nose
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. He covered the conflict in Donbas in 2014 and 2015 and reported from Ukraine this winter. Not since former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s soldiers...
View ArticleScholz’s post-national Europe
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — Five years after French President Emmanuel Macron outlined his ambitions for a more integrated, sovereign...
View ArticleWhy Italy’s ‘red belt’ unbuckled
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. When asked who he’d vote for on the eve of Italy’s snap parliamentary elections, Renzo Ramacciani, a retired builder in his seventies, slapped his...
View ArticleBritain can’t buck the markets
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Last week, Britain was the center of global attention as it pulled off a breathtaking royal funeral, replete with the military pomp of yesteryear....
View ArticleThe European Political Community is a big deal — for EU-UK relations
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. While it’s still foolish to even think of a future...
View ArticleFor Bulgaria, Borissov’s comeback is no path to stability
Dimitar Bechev is a lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and the author of “Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe.” Who won in the...
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s improbable insurrection
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — Despite failing to reach the run-off in France’s three presidential elections, leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon is now looking to stir up...
View ArticleThe markets chomped Truss’ Britain — now they’re circling for another leg to...
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “Sorry is a sorry word,” sings reggae artist Tarrus Riley. “I’m sorry that you are sorry, but sorry’s not good enough for me.” That was the...
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Postcard from Uzbekistan: Don’t mention the war!
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — “Don’t mention the war!” Uzbekistan’s state-funded Islamic religious authority, the mufti, recently instructed its imams not...
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Like father, like daughter: The irony of Ksenia Sobchak’s flight from Russia
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It’s hard not to savor the irony of the abrupt departure of Russian celebrity and onetime presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, who fled midweek...
View ArticleFear of the regime is eroding in Iran
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Women’s rights and feminist movements can be a powerful tool against autocracy; while ridicule can erode a regime’s morale, breaking down its...
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Our sisters in Iran are no longer afraid of the ayatollahs
Shabnam Safarzadeh and Shaghayegh Safarzadeh are co-founders of Advanced eClinical Training and proud supporters of the Center For Human Rights In Iran. As international mainstream media has already...
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Macron and Sunak: Two peas in a pod
Robert Zaretsky teaches at the University of Houstonand Women’s Institute of Houston. His latest book is “Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.” It often seems historically...
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The Blob returns — and there’s a lot to fear
James Snell is a widely published writer and a senior adviser on Special Initiatives at the New Lines Institute. He’s currently writing a book on the war in Afghanistan. All of Europe is haunted by a...
View ArticleUkrainians fear Russian forces will now raze Kherson city
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Russia’s retreat from Kherson city is being celebrated cautiously — as it should be. The withdrawal from the only provincial capital the Russian...
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Once Ukraine returns to its occupied villages, so will life
Iuliia Mendel is a journalist, the author of “The Fight of Our Lives” and a former press secretary for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukrainian flags are flying in Kherson. Dozens of villages...
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Cold, dark confusion grips Ukraine after Putin’s missile barrage
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. LVIV, Ukraine — Inna missed her father’s funeral. The grieving 36-year-old Ukrainian lawyer learned of his death as she and her two young daughters...
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Time for Ukraine to talk to Russia? ‘Nuts!’
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. LVIV, Ukraine — “One thing is for sure: the Ukrainians do not want any negotiations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday in...
View ArticleThe UK is starting to get real about Europe
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. After six years of chaos and recrimination since Britons voted to leave the European Union, there are signs the country is showing an unexpected...
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