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In Ukraine, echoes of Nuremberg
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “What the nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type we will take, if necessary by kidnapping their children and raising them here with...
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Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — The European Union is breaking new ground with an ambitious plan to jointly procure urgently needed ammunition for Ukraine and to ramp up...
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The toxic legacy Putin is leaving Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Britain has pushed back hard against Russia’s specious accusation that the United Kingdom is engaging in nuclear brinkmanship, after its decision...
View ArticleFrance’s feminist literary revolution
Alice Kantor is a French journalist who grew up in Paris. The #MeToo movement never quite took off in France the way it did in other Western democracies. The world of politics, academia and other...
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There is still a place for neutrality in Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Speaking before the United States Congress 11 days after the terror attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, then President George W. Bush made...
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Russian spies rebound in Europe
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Russia is trying to rebound from last year’s coordinated mass expulsion of Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic guise in Europe....
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Putin’s chekists are at the height of their power
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. There’s almost a 20-year difference between them — the Russian teenager dumped in an orphanage because she and her father publicly criticized the...
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EU needs to be more vocal about repression and violence to its south
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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Xi is fixated on ending China’s century of humiliation
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” In the last few months, five...
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Leaks show US is underestimating us again, Ukrainian officials fume
KYIV — Ukrainian officials are fuming over the leak of classified United States intelligence documents — some stamped “top secret” — that were initially shared on a social media site associated with...
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In pictures: The endless heartbreak of Turkey’s earthquake
OPTICS TURKEY’S ENDLESS HEARTBREAK Photographs by Bradley Secker for POLITICO Antakya, Hatay province, TURKEY Smoke from fires and the smell of burning plastic filled the air; the relentless sirens of...
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We need to talk about NGOs
William Nattrass is a freelance journalist and commentator based in Prague and covers Central Europe. Since the European Union’s Qatargate corruption scandal erupted late last year, much of the debate...
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Ukraine could be looking at another Maidan
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — “I was on the streets for the Orange Revolution when I was in my last year at university in 2004, and I was on the streets again in 2014....
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Time to reform UK lawmakers’ trough feeding
James Snell is a senior adviser at the New Lines Institute. He is writing a book on the war on Afghanistan.The trading of influence for money is everywhere — and Britain is not immune. Or so the...
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The EU in 2035: Bigger, messier, tougher
Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — A few weeks ago, a graduate student challenged me to imagine the European Union in 2035. Most of the time, we aren’t even sure how the next...
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Targeted killings spark debate within Russian opposition
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — “She’ll say whatever the FSB [Federal Security Service] wants her to say,” said Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian lawmaker-turned-dissident...
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Ukraine’s coming counteroffensive will be the hinge of this war
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — “All warfare is based on deception,” according to Sun Tzu. In his book “The Art of War,” the ancient Chinese military strategist highlighted...
View ArticleDiscussion and debate are democratic strengths — even in time of war
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. In this time of war, should Ukrainians — or those backing Ukraine, for that matter — refrain from public criticism of the country’s leaders,...
View ArticleIn Ukraine, it’s not hatred they feel, it’s wrath
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “We were invisible before, and to become visible is a huge step,” historian Olena Dzhedzhora said, as we discussed how Ukraine has drawn the...
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God save us all from this mad parade
Otto English is the pen name used by Andrew Scott, a writer and playwright based in London. His next book “Fake Heroes” is out on May 25. Once upon a time, and not so very long ago, the case for the...
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