Yes, the monarchy is absurd. So why can’t I quit King Charles?
For several years, my tactic for navigating debates about the tedious younger members of Britain’s royal family (Did you see the Harry interview? Isn’t William awful?) has been to align myself with...
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How to stop Putin getting away with murder in Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — “Murder, torture, illegal detentions and the persecution of people based on their ethnicity,” intoned Gyunduz Mamedov. He was listing the...
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Back with a sparkle: Eurovision returns to the UK
Frances Robinson is a freelance journalist based in London. Dust off your sequins and download the app — it’s Eurovision time again! Since the turn of the century, the Eurovision Song Contest has...
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In Ukraine, collaboration cases aren’t always clear-cut
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — Fifty-eight-year-old Viktor Kyrylov told the Shevchenkivskyi District Court in Kyiv he didn’t see himself as a collaborator, and that’s why...
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Wagner chief should avoid the tea
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Irritating or challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin is a dangerous game that often ends with a crash and a thud — or a neat suicide in a...
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The conflict cannot end until Ukraine is part of the West
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.” He traveled to Ukraine as part of a...
View ArticleEurope should be careful what it wishes for with Turkey
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and a columnist for POLITICO Europe. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. Turkey’s parliamentary election and first-round presidential vote were a...
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Staying human in a time of war
Yegor Firsov is a combat paramedic in Avdiivka, Ukraine. He is an activist and a former member of the Ukrainian parliament. AVDIIVKA — On the front lines, there is horror. But there is also great...
View ArticleThe West may have to learn how to live with Erdoğan
Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna and a part-time professor at the European University Institute. Her latest book, “A Green and...
View ArticleRussia strains to put off a Ukrainian counteroffensive
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Unveiling the hypersonic Kinzhal missile in 2018, Russian President Vladmir Putin had bragged it was almost impossible to intercept. But overnight...
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Lukashenko’s Belarus isn’t going anywhere just yet
Sergei Kuznetsov is a freelance journalist covering Eastern Europe. His work has been published in European outlets, including the Financial Times and POLITICO. The health of a nation’s leader would...
View ArticleSanctions cause rising business fears in Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. When asked whether she felt safe, Smart Holding CEO Julia Kiryanova — head of one of Ukraine’s largest investment conglomerates — paused and then...
View ArticleGeorgia hedges its bets on the EU — and Russia
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TBILISI — Even by the disorderly standards of Georgian politics, last week’s Independence Day celebration in Tbilisi’s Liberty Square was strikingly...
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Beware China’s salami tactics in Taiwan
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.” Shortly before setting off for Japan...
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This is Ukraine’s D-Day
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukraine is on the cusp of what may well prove to be one of the two key battles of the war that was unleashed on it by Russia. The first was...
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Life along Ukraine’s northern border with Russia
Iuliia Mendel is a journalist, the author of “The Fight of Our Lives” and a former press secretary for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Nowadays, it’s quite difficult to get to the town of...
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Boris Johnson: Britain’s Mini-Me
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “I am an innocent man,” proclaimed former United States President Donald Trump after his attorneys told him he faced a 37-count felony indictment...
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Ukraine’s long war and the importance of patience
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Wars don’t run according to political timetables. And in the lead-up to Ukraine’s counteroffensive, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top aides...
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Ukraine: Drowning in despair
Mariam Naiem is a cultural researcher and writer. She has commented on various aspects of the war for outlets including Al Jazeera, der Spiegel, the Telegraph and others. “I was rewatching the movie...
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Enlargement’s back on the political agenda
Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna and a part-time professor at the European University Institute. Her latest book, “A Green and...
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