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Manpower will be crucial for Russia to mount a spring offensive
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It appears it’s only a matter of time before the Kremlin orders another draft to replenish its depleted ranks and make up for the battlefield...
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The duty of a war reporter is to confront the uncomfortable
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “A vulgar low Irishman, [who] sings a good song, drinks anyone’s brandy and water, and smokes as many cigars as a Jolly Good Fellow. He is just the...
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Europe’s dishonorable migration battles
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — Migration is back on the European Union agenda, but depressingly little has changed since the last time member countries locked horns on the...
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Brussels hits Orbán where it really hurts — education
William Nattrass is a freelance journalist and commentator based in Prague and covers Central Europe. In its long-running rule-of-law dispute with Budapest, Brussels may have just stumbled on a tactic...
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How Europe should manage relations with Turkey
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....
View ArticleWest must move faster to prevent a catastrophe in northern Syria
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. On the “treacherous night” of the deadly earthquake that shook northern Syria, Idris Nassan, a Kurdish official living in Raqqa, was startled awake...
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Central Europe warns against a second ‘Munich betrayal’
MUNICH, Germany — “We must admit that it will be a big challenge to keep the EU member countries enthusiastic,” Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned in a podcast last week. “We have woken...
View ArticleThe West still doesn’t know what winning looks like in Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. More than anything else, the Munich Security Conference was founded to foster dialogue between adversaries. Yet, this year’s three-day gabfest was...
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Ukraine: The day the war broke out
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It was in the early hours of the morning, a year ago in Kyiv, that blasts could be heard coming from the direction of Boryspil International...
View ArticleIn Ukraine, we are different now
Yegor Firsov is a combat paramedic in Avdiikva, Ukraine. He is an activist and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament. AVDIIKVA — A year ago, none of us could imagine our lives as they are now....
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The strengths and weaknesses of Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. In the weeks leading up to Russia’s invasion, senior Ukraine opposition politicians and former ministers were brimming with frustration. They’d...
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Serbia’s Vučić faces a tough choice
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. MUNICH — Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić is grappling with a “difficult decision.” Should he embrace Europe, or should he continue to try and hedge bets...
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Two cheers for Olaf Scholz
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. A year after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s historic speech declaring a Zeitenwende, an epochal turning point, in his country’s foreign and defense...
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Italy’s kidnapped children — a story of institutional violence
Eleonora Francica is a New York-based reporter. She is an editorial intern at POLITICO and a reporting fellow at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. This story was supported by the Pulitzer...
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War refugees grapple with returning to Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. WARSAW — For three weeks, Olga Moisieieva and Lena Gorduz sheltered with their families, stuck in the cellars of their apartment buildings in the...
View ArticleZelenskyy has no choice but to ask his fighters to hold Bakhmut — for now
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was famously averse to retreating. “However skillfully effected a retreat may be, it always lessens the morale of...
View ArticleA culture of secrecy is obstructing British historians
Andrew Lownie is one of Britain’s leading literary agents and the author of “Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess,” “The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Love” and “Traitor King: The Scandalous...
View ArticleMacron’s Africa reset struggles to persuade
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — The bigger the humiliation, the more grandiloquent the relaunch. After a year that saw French forces conducting counterinsurgency operations...
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Poles buckle up for a bumpy election ride
Jamie Dettmer is the opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. WARSAW — Last month, Polish President Andrzej Duda approached opposition leader Donald Tusk to shake hands, as they gathered to hear United...
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It’s going to be hard to get rid of Turkey’s Erdoğan
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. In any fairly run election, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would be heading for electoral defeat. But let’s be frank, Turkey’s presidential...
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