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As Ukraine counteroffensive gets bogged down, it’s back to the drawing board
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Expectations for Ukraine’s counteroffensive were too high from the start. And as it now closes in on its third month, with no sign of a truly...
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Everything Everywhere All at Arles
Mark Porter is a travel writer and publisher who lives in Cannes. ARLES, France — Lying on the banks of the river Rhône, at the northern edge of wild and beautiful marshland, Arles — the sleepy...
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Ukraine’s needs-must approach won’t cut it with F-16 training
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukrainians are reacting with frustration, and in some cases fury, to reports that it could take until next summer — and possibly longer — to...
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Deepening the new US-Japan-Korea trilateral partnership
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” Russia’s war on Ukraine has reverberated...
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Filmmakers speak out against femicide at Sarajevo Film Festival
Emily Schrader is a student at Stanford University, interning with the Post-Conflict Research Center in Bosnia. Filmmaker Kumjana Novakova arrived at southeastern Europe’s largest film festival last...
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History as written by Vladimir Putin
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The decade-long wait wasn’t worth it. It was inevitable that Russia’s new official history textbooks would just advance the Kremlin’s dreary...
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Poles face choice over their country’s standing in Europe
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. Poland’s elections on October 15 will be the most consequential in the European Union this year. The future of...
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Putin’s crocodile tears
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Eight years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin labeled the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov a disgrace. “The most serious attention...
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Behind the Pope’s tin-eared stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Back in 2017, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to visit an Anglican church in Rome. He made no direct reference to England’s Henry VIII, who...
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America and Britain are still educating the world’s leaders
Walter Ellis is a Northern Ireland-born, France-based journalist and commentator. He’s the author of “The Beginning of the End: The Crippling Disadvantage of a Happy Irish Childhood.” Who knew that...
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It’s time for a plan C in Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Last November, top United States general Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, infuriated Kyiv — as well as some more hawkish...
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When in doubt, Europe scuttles back to euro-acronyms
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. When...
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A hot London night, a trail of blood and climate change
Karl Mathiesen is the senior climate correspondent at POLITICO Europe. Saturday was the hottest day of the year in London. I was celebrating a recent return to the United Kingdom with a boisterous,...
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Zelenskyy’s secret ‘Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Hardly a day goes by now without reports of yet another derring-do Ukrainian commando raid on targets in Russian-occupied Ukraine — sometimes even...
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Italy’s Meloni plans a geopolitical Queen’s Gambit
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and adviser at Gallos Technologies and a regular columnist for POLITICO. In the 17th century, the Italian chess player Gioachino...
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We don’t know if Elon Musk brought Armageddon closer — all we know is...
Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has written extensively on the Cold War, nuclear history, and on...
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Ukraine’s forces say NATO trained them for wrong fight
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Did NATO screw up when training Ukraine’s counteroffensive units? Did it train them for the wrong battlefield? These questions are at the heart of...
View ArticleArmenians find themselves pushed aside yet again
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Last week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is “inching ever closer to a great fracture in economic and financial...
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Dwindling donations alarm Ukraine’s frontline hospitals
Kris Parker is a freelance journalist currently reporting on Ukraine. His work has appeared in outlets including the Nation, OpenDemocracy and the Euromaidan Press. ZAPORIZHZHIA— Every day brings new...
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Dismissive centrists are making it way too easy for populists to win
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, told POLITICO’s Power Play podcast last week that he has talked with former United States...
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