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We have reached the point of maximum Russian danger
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.” History unfolds in bursts — there are...
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Europe’s growing abortion nightmare
Reporting for this article was carried out by Akmaljon Akhmedjonov, Bernadeta Barokova, Yijing Chen, Pius Fozan, Timotheus Paul Goldinger, Kristina Kovalska, Leila Lawrence, Hanna Perenyi, Carina...
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Prigozhin’s insurrection may be destined to fail but it will weaken Putin
Jamie Dettmer is the opinion editor of Politico Europe. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s insurrection — or “march for freedom,” as he describes it — doesn’t look like it will turn into Ten Days that Shook the...
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Putinism’s demise will be chaotic and violent
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted putsch has demonstrated the fragility of Vladimir Putin’s grip on power. Or as Russian opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky puts it: “Now the country and the world know...
View ArticleHow to ensure a strong, independent Ukraine
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.” A strong, independent Ukraine is...
View ArticleRussia’s put the genie back in the bottle — or has it?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Nothing to see here — now move along, please. A little over a week after the 36-hour insurrection of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group...
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Risk of nuclear escalation is still too large for comfort
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Neither side had wanted it to happen. In October 1962, the United States and Russia were on the brink of nuclear Armageddon amid the Cuban missile...
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For Moscow, that NATO summit must have been highly alarming
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.” Last week’s NATO summit was...
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A call from the front line: We want to end this war as quickly as possible
Yegor Firsov is a combat paramedic in Avdiivka, Ukraine. He is an activist and a former member of the Ukrainian parliament. This article was translated from Ukrainian by Valentyna Marchenko. When...
View ArticlePutin’s war is slowly destroying Europe’s breadbasket
ODESA, Ukraine — July begins the Ukrainian wheat harvest, and the stalks from the humus-saturated soil near the Black Sea are chest-high and golden. A 20-minute car ride separates the port city of...
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How the EU can enlarge
Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali and a part-time professor at the European University Institute. Her latest book, “A Green and Global Europe,” is out with Polity. The...
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The dead and missing along Europe’s migration routes
Linda Caglioni is a freelance journalist based in Italy. Her work has been published in outlets including Espresso and Il Fatto Quotidiano. An entire sideboard is covered in photos of their missing...
View ArticleThe crisis in israel is just getting started
JERUSALEM — It’s a strange experience to observe the place you live in slide from controlled crisis into utter chaos in just under 24 hours. Crisis is a fairly common situation in Israel. There is...
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Admitting Ukraine will be the EU’s biggest geopolitical contribution to the war
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and a columnist for POLITICO Europe. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. The European Commission finally delivered its long-anticipated oral report...
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It’s wishful to think Putin’s system is falling apart
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. There was understandable glee in Kyiv when news broke that the Kremlin was turning on the self-styled Club of Angry Patriots — the ultranationalists...
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Nigel Farage, the ‘disingenuous grifter’
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Britain’s elite Coutts Bank pinned several labels on Nigel Farage when deciding to drop him as a customer earlier this month — including those of...
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Trump’s in big legal trouble, but he’s still a nightmare for Europe
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. With former United States President Donald Trump ensnared in mounting and potentially politically terminal legal woes, some European leaders and...
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Georgia: A border in my backyard
All Georgians can do is gaze toward the snowy mountains and remember where they once used to swim, walk and graze their cattle, carefree. By Clément Girardot Photographs by Julien Pebrel/MYOP for...
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Moscow doesn’t care who it starves
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Sauntering around the port of Sevastopol in August 1989, American sailors were being mobbed by well-wishers. Their warships, the USS Gates and USS...
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Trump is a serious threat to the union of American states
Peter van Dalen is a Dutch member of the European Parliament. Standing in front of the Capitol building in Washington on March 4, 1865, then President Abraham Lincoln stirred the hearts of his...
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