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While war continues, Lebanon is trapped
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Last week, German Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock became the latest in a long line of Western diplomats dispatched...
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Does Germany still believe in Europe?
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book is “In Search of Berlin,” published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. Nobody in Europe showers German...
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The Middle East’s deadly doom loop
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. BEIRUT — Dazed and exhausted, a Lebanese Shiite mother of four gestures to her baby bump — her fifth child is weeks away from arriving. For the past...
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Europe should hope for a Trump victory
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. A profound sense of malaise has taken over the EU. Politics within the bloc’s two largest member countries,...
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The end of Pax Americana
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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With Trump, Netanyahu’s got his work cut out for him
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping Iran’s ayatollahs will live to regret their murder-for-hire plots against U.S. President-elect...
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Trump threatens to be good for Ukraine, actually
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump manages to engineer a peace deal and bring the Ukraine war to a close he’ll likely get no thanks for it — even...
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The makings of a grand Trump deal in the Middle East
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “Iran is a de facto threshold nuclear power,” said former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It could be just days or weeks away from being able to...
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Scholz’s leadership failure
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book is “In Search of Berlin,” published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz...
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Asylum for Afghan women might not be so straightforward
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. Sayed Mohammad Akbar Agha, a stout man with a big black turban, sat on a thin mattress in his living room in Kabul, two armed men...
View ArticlePrivate companies need to get better at monitoring threats
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. Two privately owned undersea communications...
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Trump’s effect on the Middle East
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. United States President Joe Biden and his aides deserve much of the credit for brokering the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, which came...
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Finland’s preparedness isn’t exactly good for business
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. Finland is trending. This year, the country was...
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France will oppose the Mercosur treaty right until the end
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. French opposition to the EU-South America trade deal has never been more broad-based or determined. The draft...
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Erdoğan’s risky play in Syria
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. He covered Syria’s civil war from 2013 to 2016 for Voice of America and the Daily Beast. As Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s forces turned tail and...
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The unlikelihood of an Asian NATO
No one believes that NATO will expand to Asia — least of all Asian nations. But there’s still chatter about the possibility. In reality, Indo-Pacific governments tend to prefer individual partnerships...
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Shadow fleet could aid Moscow in other ways too — not just oil revenue
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. Since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the...
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EU’s moment of truth on Ukraine is fast approaching
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. Donald Trump’s return to the White House is now the main issue occupying senior minds across Europe’s capitals...
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Bashar Assad is finished but Syria’s fight for democracy is just beginning
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. He covered the Syrian civil war from 2012 to 2017 for Voice of America and the Daily Beast. “Most European governments can’t wait to get rid of...
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Can the UK’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ really become its Trump whisperer?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. WASHINGTON — Never a man to shun the limelight, Britain’s populist agent provocateur and Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage volunteered his...
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