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In the safe hands of Sweden, here comes Eurovision 2024
Frances Robinson is a freelance journalist based in London. She writes a newsletter about children’s television called Square Eyes. You may have heard political advisers whispering, spotted some...
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Ukraine’s investigative journalists are facing intimidation
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — “I ran investigations for 15 years before the war, and it was always hard and risky. But I think it’s worse for journalists now,” said...
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As Rafah hangs in the balance, will Bibi defy Biden?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “We will fight with our fingernails if we have to,” a defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his war Cabinet after a tense phone...
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Trump ally has tough love for Europe
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “I think the transatlantic relationship is really important, and I think Russia is a very serious threat,” said Elbridge Colby, a former senior...
View ArticleThe International Criminal Court just saved Benjamin Netanyahu
Just when it appeared Benjamin Netanyahu’s days in power might finally be numbered, up steps the International Criminal Court to save him. The Israeli prime minister’s fragile war cabinet had been on...
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Russia should pay for Ukraine — but using frozen assets won’t be easy
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. The political debate over the extent to which Russia should be made to pay for its war in Ukraine — and how it...
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Netanyahu case will make or break the ICC
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has long been dogged by questions over its credibility and relevance, and it has faced a torrent of criticism...
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Europe’s alarming descent into extreme political acrimony and violence
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Decades before the crack of two pistol shots in Sarajevo plunged the Continent into World War I, Otto von Bismarck famously predicted it would be...
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After Trump conviction, Democrats are in a triumphal mood. They shouldn’t be.
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Sometimes for the sake of stability — or to avoid catastrophe — it’s best to leave well alone. For all his faults, Republican presidential nominee...
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Starmer will try to prove Britain can be a reliable EU friend — and Germany...
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book is “In Search of Berlin,” published by Atlantic. Germany misses Britain. Just a little. Just enough to make the likely...
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Only a lasting cease-fire in Gaza will let Biden off the hook
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. U.S. President Joe Biden and his aides must feel they’ve fallen down a rabbit hole where, much like in Alice in Wonderland, their Israeli...
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Deforestation law risks pushing Indonesia toward China
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. When Austria’s ministers of agriculture and economy called on the European Commission to delay the implementation of its European...
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For King and country? Europe’s young may not be willing to fight
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. When Ukrainians call for additional Western weapons, stricter economic sanctions or the seizure of Russian assets, they invariably throw in a...
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How Western shipping lines try to minimize disruption is of great interest to...
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. According to a new report, a Chinese hacker...
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EU election: Not enough will change — and that’s the real problem
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. For all the Sturm und Drang over the European Parliament election and the widely predicted surge of support for right-wing populists — notably in...
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Turning Cyprus from a problem into a solution
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.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond...
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Are Israel and Hezbollah about to square up?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Since October, Western officials have been working tirelessly to try and prevent the war in Gaza from spilling over, focused on the possibility of...
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Farage let the cat out of the bag — NATO expansion was just an excuse for Putin
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Perhaps for Russian President Vladimir Putin, the assertion that he was forced to invade Ukraine due to what he claims has been NATO’s relentless...
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Macron’s gamble creates major fiscal headaches for the EU
To argue that Europe has found itself in a moment of the utmost insecurity and unpredictability is an understatement. While the center broadly held in last month’s European Parliament election, the...
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How Trump Republicans really feel about 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.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond...
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