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Democracy’s at risk, it’s time politicians stopped fibbing
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Does truth matter less in politics than it used to? Have politicians always been “economical with the truth” — as a top adviser to former British...
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The end of Le Pen?
PARIS — Seismic earthquakes are rare in France. Political earthquakes, rather more frequent. Seven years after the rise of Emmanuel Macron transformed the country’s political landscape, last weekend’s...
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Orbán: From dissident to Putin’s Hungarian boyar
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. If Russian President Vladimir Putin ever decided to invade European countries other than Ukraine, there’s one he wouldn’t need to bother with —...
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Do a good deed for your country — stay home
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. EU diplomat Johan Floderus is now back home in...
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Security and defense will have to rest more on Europe — and less on the US
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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Faced with Vance, it’s time for Europe to grow up
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Already anxious about former U.S. President Donald Trump pulling off a return to the White House, European leaders have been given another major...
View ArticleWhat a rushed trial for Evan Gershkovich might mean
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Of course, it was never in doubt that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich would be found guilty of espionage — the acquittal rate in...
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Meloni was on her best behavior — now her mask is starting to slip
Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, a part-time professor at the European University Institute and a Europe’s Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. Her...
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With Biden out, Vance may be the wrong pick for Trump
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Could Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance turn out to be the entirely wrong pick as Donald Trump’s running mate? U.S. President Joe...
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Invisible and powerful: How Russian women are protesting
Ellina is a journalism master’s student from Russia. In Russia, it has become increasingly impossible to protest without risk of being arrested or put in prison. But people still do it. It just might...
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Poised for victory, Germany’s center right dithers
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book is “In Search of Berlin,” published by Atlantic. Britain has gone sensible; France has gone chaotic. But both have...
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Today’s Russia-West prisoner swaps are not like the Cold War
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. What an emotional scene it was when journalist...
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Orbán isn’t as isolated as you think
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. Under the leadership of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a new far-right euroskeptic group — the Patriots...
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In the hydrogen battlefield, Europe tries to stay ahead of China
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. While it was Germany that led the way on solar energy, it was China that stole the market right from under Berlin’s nose to become...
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Will Biden be the last Zionist US president?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Pennsylvania’s charismatic and eloquent Governor Josh Shapiro appears to harbor no ill will for having lost out to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as...
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Ukraine’s raid into Russia has shifted the tactical narrative
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukraine’s surprise cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region last week caught Russian President Vladimir Putin and his generals unprepared....
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Putin is paralyzed in crisis – again
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukrainian military officials are perplexed. They’d expected a bigger and much more ferocious pushback to their surprise incursion into the Kursk...
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The US divide on foreign policy
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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How to rein in Russia’s shadow fleet
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. The aging, uninsured vessels with obscure...
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Talk of peace deals in the Levant, Ukraine is for the birds
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The late American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, broker of the 1995 Dayton Accords ending the Bosnian War, used to say that warring parties will only...
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