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The Wilders effect
THE HAGUE â Just over a month before the Netherlands heads to elections on March 15, conventional wisdom in political circles has it that the man expected to win â right-wing rabble-rouser...
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12 heroes who will make 2017 great again (in a good way)
Since its European launch in April 2015, POLITICO has run a provocative series called âDirty Dozen,â designed to call out 12 characters â individuals, groups or institutions â that spell gloom...
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Europe’s cruel migration policies weaken its Trump criticism
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini’s strong response to President Donald Trumpâs discriminatory executive order â banning the entry of anyone arriving from seven predominantly Muslim...
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10 days that shook Romania
A brief timeline and summary of events: Day 1, January 31: Romaniansâ anti-graft fight starts spontaneously around midnight, after the government’s official journal publishes an emergency ordinance...
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Why NATO needs a European pillar
Europeans have every reason to worry about U.S. President Donald Trump. He has declared NATO “obsolete.” He’s spoken more glowingly about Russian President Vladimir Putin than about most WesternÂ...
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End of Pax Americana
The chaos of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office have reinforced the impression that the U.S. can no longer wield power effectively. This means we are entering uncharted territory....
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Wolves in nationalist clothing
LONDON â Nationalists versus globalists. Traditionalists versus multiculturalists. The “left behind” versus the elites. If the likes of Donald Trump, Brexit leaders and the European right are to be...
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NATO survival will depend on Germany
The United States will meet its commitments in Europe but NATO’s European members have to step up on their defense spending â that’s the message U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis will try to...
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Between genders in Prague
PRAGUE â Viktor Heumann lives in limbo: not as a female, the gender that appears on his national ID card, and not as a male, the gender with which he identifies. To bureaucrats and officials, he is...
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Putin’s holy war
MOSCOW â It was just before dawn when close to a dozen police officers wearing helmets and body armor burst into the apartment where Yevgeny Lebedev lives with his wife and children in northern...
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Rex Tillerson is already underwater
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is winging his way to Mexico Wednesday carrying a load of troubles in his bag: His boss is in a long rhetorical war with our nearest neighbor; our next major trade...
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What I saw in Kiev
I last visited Kiev in April 2014, when the energy in the city was still electric. For months, Independence Square â dubbed the Euromaidan by Ukrainians seeking to tug their country out from under...
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How Erdoğan will derail Cyprus’ reunification
The divided island of Cyprus is probably the closest it has ever been to being reunified. For the first time, both the North and the South have elected leaders who are genuinely willing to work toward...
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Why Europe should lead on fight against disease
The fight against diseases of poverty â HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other neglected diseases â may seem an unlikely battleground in our new era of foreign policy. But this is where...
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Evidence of Russian cyber meddling in American presidential elections has reinforced one of the paradoxes of connectivity: The more digitally advanced we become, the more vulnerable we are. Cyber...
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What if Donald Trump played the Kremlin?
MOSCOW â Ever since U.S. intelligence officials accused Russia of interfering in November’s presidential elections, President Donald Trump has been forced to deny accusations that he is a Kremlin...
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We are Deniz Yücel
BERLIN â Freedom of thought, the arts and the press should be inconvenient. But across the globe, the democracies of the center-ground â who ought to view these freedoms as the lynchpins of their...
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Brexit faces Groucho Marx moment
PARIS â Call it Theresa May’s Groucho Marx moment. In the 1935 classic movie âA Night at the Opera,â Groucho (alias Otis B. Driftwood) is dining in style when the waiter brings him the bill....
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Veni, vidi but does he have what it takes to vici?
If Matteo Renzi is to successfully relaunch his political career, the former Italian prime minister needs to reinvent himself. The âstrong young manâ of Italian politics stepped down in December,...
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Three cheers for the eurozone
Despite its young age, the Economic and Monetary Union â the boldest and most complex European project of the past 25 years â has withstood one of the worst economic and financial crises in living...
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