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Dispatch from Ukraine’s front lines: Here, casualties have faces
Yegor Firsov is a combat paramedic in Avdiikva, Ukraine. He is an activist and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament. AVDIIKVA — It feels weird being here; a grown man with a beard, carrying a...
View ArticleBiden keeps ignoring Europe. It’s time EU leaders got the message
Former United States President Donald Trump was a useful bogeyman for Europe. His successor, Joe Biden, is proving much trickier — a friend who says all the right things but leaves you in the lurch...
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Clinging to normalcy in time of war
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — Some things never change. Come rain, shine, a blizzard or a missile attack, the colorful blue-and-gold floor mats in the nearly dozen...
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Living in fear: Iranian LGBTQ+ activists in Turkey
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Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. Europe’s leadership couple has taken to sleeping in separate bedrooms. France and Germany aren’t about to get divorced after 60 years of a political...
View ArticleThe EU needs to get real about migration
William Nattrass is a freelance journalist and commentator based in Prague and covers Central Europe. The new rift between the Czech Republic and Slovakia over temporary border controls should have...
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The West must choose representative democracy — not sortation
James Snell is a senior advisor at the New Lines Institute. He is currently writing a book on the war in Afghanistan. The founder of National Review and godfather of the American conservative movement...
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EU must seize the geopolitical moment in the Balkans
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has finally awakened the European Union to the strategic importance of the Western Balkans and the potential for Moscow to...
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Taiwan has learned a lot from the war in Ukraine — it’s time Europe caught up
Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna, and a board member of ENI. Her new book, “A Green and Global Europe,” is now out with Polity....
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Russia digs in for a long war
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Visiting newly liberated Kherson back in November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced, “this is the beginning of the end of the war.”...
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The dire consequences of Denmark’s ‘paradigm shift’ on refugees
Marie Juul Petersen and Nikolas Feith Tan are senior researchers at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. They are authors of the report “You can never feel safe,” which examines Denmark’s practice...
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Putin’s toxic brew is pure Nicholas I
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to mine his country’s history, appropriating dead czars and other notable figures for his preferred national...
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Erdoğan plots war, crackdown to save his skin
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — Having crashed the Turkish economy and impoverished the middle class that he himself had enriched, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is now...
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Asia rising and the challenges ahead
Mohit Anand is a professor of international business and strategy at EMLYON Business School. Rajesh Mehta is a leading consultant and columnist working on market entry, innovation and public policy....
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Pro-war Russia enraged over military failings
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. There’s one thing Western and Russian military strategists agree on — crowding a large number of mainly new conscripts inside a building within...
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What Ukraine — or Russia — must do to win
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “We have to learn and learn,” Russian political commissar Pavel Kalitov confided in his journal in September 1942. “For a start, we must stop...
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Why Macron must win his pension reform battle
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has staked his second term — and his reputation as an economic reformer — on making the French work longer...
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Appealing to Russians to end the war on Ukraine is wasted breath
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Western nations started imposing financial and commercial sanctions on Russia immediately after its invasion of Ukraine began. Their goal was to not...
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In pictures: Greenland’s unique take on climate change
OPTICS GREENLAND’S POSITIVESPIN ON CLIMATE CHANGE Icebergs from the Jakobshavn Glacier off the coast of Ilulissat, in western Greenland. | Photographs by Bradley Secker for POLITICO This story was...
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No amount of regulation can render the internet safe for every user
James Snell is a senior advisor at the New Lines Institute. He is writing a book on the war on Afghanistan. You may not have heard, but the internet is an unacceptably dangerous place. A place full of...
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