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Welcome to Europe’s year of anxiety
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. Europe is facing a year of anxiety over elections — both in the European Union itself and in the United States....
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The two-state solution is dead. Why pretend anymore?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Today, Israelis don’t believe a Jewish state can live alongside a Palestinian one. As it stands, they have lost all faith in a two-state solution —...
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Peace in Gaza is impossible without empathy
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV — As Israel presses on with its military campaign, one would be hard pressed to find reports of what Gazans are enduring or the dire...
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What another Trump presidency would mean for NATO
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.” As a former United States ambassador to...
View ArticleHow to respond to Russian aggression in the Baltic Sea
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. There’s a specter haunting Europe — the Baltic Sea region to be...
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Clashing visions of Israel’s future
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV — Going against the grain requires nerve. Left-wing Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy knows all about that — as well as the...
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Netanyahu can’t get Israel’s far right to zip it
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV — There was a sigh of relief in Israel last week, when the judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stopped short of acceding to...
View ArticleIran: Here we go with another game of whack-a-mole
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. U.S. President Joe Biden is getting drawn into a game of whack-a-mole eagerly engineered by Iran. Up pop the Tehran-backed Houthis, threatening...
View Article3 men are holding the Levant hostage
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV/RAMALLAH — Nineteenth-century Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle believed that “The History of the world is but the Biography...
View ArticleUS and Germany — a reversal of fortunes
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.” For decades, American officials have been...
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With Navalny’s death, Russians lose their last hope
“The cause of death is being investigated,” Russia’s prison authorities announced after Alexei Navalny died in Penal Colony No. 3 just above the Arctic Circle on Friday. But whichever way you look at...
View ArticleOnly connecting with voters can stop Europe’s populist tide
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Much has been written about why voters seem likely to turn to populists in greater numbers and shun established mainstream parties in forthcoming...
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Europe caught between Putin and Trump
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.” Two big news stories set the stage for this...
View ArticleRussia’s opposition died with Navalny
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sacrificed himself. He returned to President Vladimir Putin’s Russia knowing full well it could prove...
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Ukraine: A struggle for the ages
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “Today I will not panic and cry. I will be calm and confident. My kids are watching.” These were the words of Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska...
View ArticleWe need to be more aware of the spies in our midst
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. In exemplary coordination, Norway’s intelligence agencies have...
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How Germany is learning to love its army
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book is “In Search of Berlin,” published by Atlantic. One Friday a few weeks ago in Berlin, the carriage on the U-Bahn was...
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Ukraine’s in a dire position. Macron’s gaffe made things worse.
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. French President Emmanuel Macron’s suggestion that NATO might have to send troops to Ukraine was met with brickbats and catcalls this week. German...
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EU’s pretending to be an honest trade cop
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. She lived in Beirut until recently. As farmers from France, Italy and Belgium spent the last month blocking key streets around the...
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Macron: The grand master of grandstanding
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.” There he goes again, another...
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