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Green champion King Charles appears at odds with Rishi Sunak
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.” The thoughts of...
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Kosovo attack: Who benefits?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The European Union and the United States have been trying to persuade Serbia and Kosovo to end their enmity and normalize relations for more than a...
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Trump is no ghost of the past — he’s haunting Ukraine’s present
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Europe and Ukraine got a nasty foretaste last week of what a second Donald Trump presidency in the United States would look like. As the former...
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Italy’s blue crab invasion: If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em
Marcello Ross is a freelance journalist specializing in the environment and science. FERRARA, Italy — The sun was just coming up over the Sacca di Goro lagoon in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna,...
View ArticleHow did Israel miss what Hamas was planning?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The massive assault on Israel by Iran-backed Hamas militants is as bad an intelligence fiasco for the country as 1973’s Yom Kippur War, when Egypt...
View ArticleIran is the only one likely to benefit from Hamas’ attack on Israel
Anchal Vohra is an international affairs commentator and was based in Beirut until recently. Israelis woke up to a nightmare on Saturday as Hamas fighters infiltrated the country’s south,...
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Multilateralism is broken
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. No...
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The coming Gaza hostage crisis
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Hamas “is no different than ISIS. It is no different than al-Qaeda,” Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan told reporters on Sunday, displaying...
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Despite Washington chaos, Americans still want to support Ukraine
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.” Europe is fearful that the United States...
View ArticleEurope is still teeming with antisemitism
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. If anyone had any doubt as to whether the Western world is still teeming with antisemitism, the displays of jubilant pro-Hamas rallies in various...
View ArticleThe dogs of war are howling in the Middle East
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. BEIRUT — Against a dawning day, just hours after the fatal Gaza hospital explosion that killed hundreds, Israel’s border with Lebanon crackled with...
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Biden’s Middle East challenge
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.” When United States President Joe Biden...
View ArticleThe longer Israel thinks, the more time Washington has to calm its wrath
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. BEIRUT — “Once you break it, you are going to own it,” General Colin Powell warned former United States President George W. Bush when he was...
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EU’s foreign policy weakness is here to stay
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. The feverish pitch of international diplomacy since the terrorist attacks on Israel have just highlighted...
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As Lebanon’s border simmers, life in downtown Beirut goes on (for now)
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. BEIRUT — Walking in downtown Beirut, with its gleaming apartment blocks, outdoor cafes and stylish restaurants, one would never know Lebanon is...
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Russia’s shadow fleet is a disaster waiting to happen
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and adviser at Gallos Technologies and a regular columnist for POLITICO. Earlier this month, the Cameroon-flagged Turba — a...
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As the Middle East strains, fears of extremism rise
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Here we go again. From London to Berlin, Rome to Paris, security agencies are on edge, warning Europe’s governments to get ready for a resurgence of...
View ArticleHezbollah, Tehran leading from behind
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV — Since the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on October 7, the group’s leaders have been desperate for Hezbollah — its militant Iran-backed...
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Anger and grief aren’t a sound basis for effective strategy for Israel
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.” Talking to senior officials in Washington...
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A chastened Israel fights for its life and its soul
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV — In 2006, celebrated Israeli author David Grossman’s son Uri was killed in Lebanon when his tank was hit by a Hezbollah rocket. At his...
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