Trump fails to get Putin to stop the shooting
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “Plan A is: Get the shooting to stop,” said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday, noting the U.S. administration’s main goal is to secure a...
View ArticleErdoğan seizes geopolitical moment to snuff out democratic opposition
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spent years eroding democracy, stifling dissent and purging the country’s army and civil service. Now,...
View ArticleUK chancellor will double down despite growing opposition
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. When it comes to the spring statement from Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, one thing is...
View ArticleWe need to pay closer attention to Svalbard
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 happens in Svalbard doesn’t look like...
View ArticleWhat Signalgate really tells 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 From Across the Pond...
View ArticleTrump would only help a neighbor for profit
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. In December 1940, then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt explained the thinking behind his plan to lend and lease wartime supplies and equipment...
View ArticleFor Europe’s populists, Trump is a mixed blessing
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. U.S. President Donald Trump and his ideological allies in Europe are confident the future is on their side — that they can surf an historic wave...
View ArticleIndia could help save an aging Europe
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen beamed as she stood next to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The two leaders...
View ArticleHow Trump cost America the world
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “America is lost!” a distressed King George III had noted, reviewing the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. But will today’s...
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