Europe’s Duty to Ukraine April 25, 2025
The war could grind on, with or without America....
Europe Has Come to a Fork in the Road on Trade April 25, 2025
President Trump’s strong tariffs on Chinese goods effectively suspends most Sino-American trade. China now faces an enormous glut of telecommunications and network-connected equipment, such as 5G equipment, fiber optic cables, telecom parts and vario...
Can Europe Compete in Africa’s New Great Game? April 24, 2025
In the aftermath of decolonization, Europe’s engagement with Africa was largely shaped by a developmental ethos rooted in normative ideals—shared values, democracy promotion, and human rights. For decades, European policy focused on capacity-building...
Ukraine & Europe Can’t Afford To Refuse Trump’s Peace Plan April 24, 2025
Most of the peace plan for Ukraine now sketched out by the Trump administration is not new, is based on common sense, and has indeed already been tacitly accepted by Kyiv. ...
Vance’s Visit to India Shows Trump Is Rebuilding Ties April 24, 2025
President Trump’s return to the White House is reshaping America’s foreign policy with a nationalist, protectionist edge. Although this shift has frayed relationships with some traditional allies — especially in Europe, whose importance for U.S. poli...
Putin Shows NATO His Dangerous Balkan Hand April 24, 2025
In 1888, a generation before the First World War started, the German arch-statesman Otto von Bismarck predicted that a great European war was coming over some “damn foolish thing in the Balkans.” Tensions in Southeastern Europe have a troublesome hab...
Trump Can Protect the Post-WWII World Order or Destroy It April 24, 2025
President Trump's Ukraine policy has arrived at what Joe Biden frequently referred to as “an inflection point.” Weeks after Volodomier Zelensky unconditionally accepted the U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, Vladimir Putin still refuses to do so, inste...
U.S. Investors Should Steer Clear of Communist China April 23, 2025
Early this month, Hong Kong-based shipping conglomerate CK Hutchison announced it was delaying signing a deal to sell ports it owns near the Panama Canal to BlackRock. The announcement comes as regulators in mainland China are expected to launch an a...
On Tariffs, Meloni Is Showing the Way Forward April 23, 2025
Meloni’s Washington gamble isn’t just bold—it’s a blueprint for a Europe no longer shackled to Brussels’ dead weight. ...
EU Is No Match for China or U.S. April 23, 2025
In hindsight, what makes the 1990s appear to be worthy of nostalgia is the fact that almost everything ran on autopilot. European integration hummed along with Austria, Sweden, and Finland joining the European Union in 1995, turning a club of 12 into...
How Europe Can Deter Russia April 23, 2025
Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump began his effort to settle the war in Ukraine, European leaders have tried to assemble a military coalition capable of defending Kyiv....
Europe's Roadmap: Via Meloni April 22, 2025
Europe is preparing for the worst. The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, stated bluntly in an interview with Germany’s Die Zeit, “the West as we knew it no longer exists.” Doom has many dimensions: democratic backsliding, constitut...
NATO: An Alliance Ripe for Change April 22, 2025
NATO’s June summit in The Hague will present a critical opportunity for America’s allies to reaffirm their commitment to collective security. The worsening security environment in both Europe and the Indo-Pacific can only be met by increased burden-s...
Giorgia Meloni Is Europe’s Most Important Leader April 21, 2025
Giorgia Meloni has confounded her critics yet again as she proves herself to be the most important leader in the European Union. She has shown in the past two days that she is the vital bridge between America and Europe. ...
Trump Could Struggle to Force Europe's Hand on China April 19, 2025
As relations between the U.S. and China deteriorate, the European Union risks becoming caught in the crosshairs. ...
Europe Battles to Win Favor in Central Asia April 17, 2025
The European Union does poorly in the race to win influence in Central Asia, and will need to up its game to rival China, Russia, and the Gulf. ...
As Relations With France Wane, Is Algeria Open for Business? April 16, 2025
Relations between Algeria and France have nosedived lately, due to disagreement over autonomy for the Western Sahara, immigration tensions, a series of diplomatic incidents, and Algeria’s historic grievances over the war of independence and French nu...
European Leadership Is No Longer Strong April 16, 2025
Europe was accustomed for so long to an alliance with the United States where the contributions and benefits were so uneven in Europe’s favour that the Europeans became addicted to an asymmetrical relationship with America. ...
Merz’s Grand Coalition: Gambling on a New Centre Ground April 16, 2025
The deal signed last week between the centre-right CDU and centre-left SPD paves the way for vital investment in Europe’s biggest economy...
EU Faces a Choice Deeper Than America vs China April 16, 2025
In the wake of Donald Trump’s hot-and-cold trade war, Europe has attempted to get closer to China....
Europe After the End of the Liberal International Order April 16, 2025
As Europeans rearm to confront Russian aggression, they also need to figure out how to survive in the age of “unpeace” that Donald Trump and other strongmen are ushering in. The old interdependencies that liberals took for granted no longer ensure pe...
EU's Protectionist Policies Have Been in Place Long Before Trump April 15, 2025
In March of 2025, President Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on imports of steel, aluminum, automobiles, and certain automobile parts. European Union (E.U.) members, except Hungary, announced retaliatory tariffs of 10% to 25% on specific U.S. import...
The PRC Sees ‘Window of Opportunity’ With Europe April 15, 2025
Beijing sees a strategic window of opportunity to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe and improve its economic and trading relationship with the European Union. ...
Europe’s Annual Migrant Crisis Is Just Getting Started April 15, 2025
Irregular border crossings into the European Union dropped by 31 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 to 33,600. The figures, released by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, appear to show that the EU is getting a grip on illegal im...
Rearming Europe: Challenges and Constraints April 15, 2025
The Trump administration is sending shock waves through the development community, diplomatic circles, and financial markets. In doing so, it might have achieved something that, until a short time ago, even the most fervent Europeans would have downp...
Is Civil War Coming to Europe? April 15, 2025
Ordinary Europeans are starting to admit what their leaders won’t: civil unrest may be closer than anyone dares to say. ...
Populists Are Gaining Power and Keeping It April 15, 2025
Donald Trump is helping galvanize an international movement of the nationalist right. ...
Europe Fear: China Will Do to Us What It Did to the U.S. April 15, 2025
EUROPE FEAR: CHINA WILL DO TO US WHAT IT DID TO THE UNITED STATES. Much of the public’s attention to the Trump tariff situation focuses on 1) each person’s individual loss, or possible loss, in the stock market and 2) whether tariffs will result in i...
Trump Is Right To Think Europe Is a Joke on Defense March 27, 2025
The language used by senior Trump officials to articulate their open contempt for their European allies may be puerile. But it does contain some important home truths that urgently need to be addressed if the UK and the rest of Europe are to have any...
America Should Keep the NATO Command Chair March 27, 2025
President Donald Trump wants a lasting peace in Europe after Russia’s war against Ukraine....
Trump Should Turn NATO Over to Europe March 27, 2025
Don’t insult the Europeans. Work with them to shift the military burden. ...
For JD Vance, Europe Really Is the Enemy March 26, 2025
No one who knows Donald Trump could have expected his second term in office to be a smooth ride for Europe. Even so, the extent to which the administration has set out to antagonize its longstanding allies on the other side of the Atlantic is astound...
Why Europe’s Far Right Can’t Be Tamed March 26, 2025
As a far-right tide sweeps across the Atlantic, European liberal democrats are searching for a strategy. Some believe that they should erect stronger firewalls by refusing to join coalitions that include the far right to prevent its leaders from gain...
Are Europe and the U.S. Headed for a Divorce? March 25, 2025
If the United States and Europe were a married couple, you would probably say they are headed for a divorce. Like that couple, the two long-time partners could resolve their differences and renew their vows. ...
Europe’s Message to Moscow: We Will Keep Sanctions March 25, 2025
From the beginning of Russia’s invasion, the European Union has stood together with our American allies, providing military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine and imposing tough sanctions. Whatever the US now does, no reason exists to change course. ...
The Problem With Europe’s Half-Baked Rearmament March 25, 2025
Never underestimate Europe’s capacity to disappoint. Rearmament euphoria and the explosive catch-up rally in European industrial stocks over the last month have run ahead of hard fiscal facts. ...
The Reverse Nixon/Kissinger… Finally March 24, 2025
For nearly 13 years, well before the Maidan/Crimea crisis and even Trump’s initial run for President, this author has argued for a “Reverse Nixon” or “Reverse Kissinger” tilt to Russia to balance China.In light of the recent dust-up with Ukrainian Pr...
Why Europe Can’t Defend Itself March 24, 2025
Imagine a world in which western Europe was actually able to stick it to Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump simultaneously. ...
Europe’s War in Ukraine March 24, 2025
Relations between the United States and its European allies have proved tempestuous during the first two months of the second Trump administration. ...
U.S.-South Africa Diplomatic Crisis Provides an Opportunity for a New Beginning March 22, 2025
U.S.-South Africa relations sank to a new low last week after the South African ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, accused the Trump administration of “supremacy” on four occasions during an online lecture on U.S. foreign policy to a South Afr...
The Quid Pro Quo for Peace in Ukraine March 22, 2025
President Trump promises a rapprochement with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Before we dismiss this as a pipedream, we should understand the options that Trump has in dealing with President Putin. What will be the quid pro quo for peace in Ukraine...
Welcoming Europe’s Defense Industrial Renaissance March 22, 2025
Fearing a sustained threat from Russia and reduced military protection from the United States, several European nations led by Poland, Estonia, the United Kingdom, and Germany are boosting defense spending. The European Union is also making $163 bill...
Putin Has Shown He Does Not Want Peace March 22, 2025
The Russian president is the impediment to US proposals for a ceasefire. But Europe knows that this administration is unlikely to act accordingly...
Europe’s Fighting Talk Is No Substitute for Hard Power March 20, 2025
Instead of unconvincingly pumping out their chests, European leaders should engage with the Trump administration in constructive diplomacy with Russia. ...
A New Western Alliance Is Already Taking Shape March 20, 2025
Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drum...
Trump Must Consider a Stronger Lithuanian Partnership March 20, 2025
As a first-generation American of Lithuanian descent, I have a strong connection to this Baltic country. My parents fled Lithuania in 1985, then under Soviet control, and arrived in America in 1986 for a shot at the American dream.Like millions of fa...
A Quick Western Win Over Putin Is There March 19, 2025
As war in Ukraine rages, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a new frontier for Russia’s assault on Europe. Putin sees an opportunity to expose Europe as a paper tiger, incapable of resisting his advances. Europe should turn the tables now and expose the Kreml...
Trump Calls Canada to Action March 19, 2025
The U.S. is beating up on Canada.The friendship between the U.S. and Canada is historic but has fallen into an inexplicable confrontation. Bizarrely, President Trump has proposed that a fellow member of the powerful Group of Seven major economic powe...
What Exactly Do Europe’s Leaders Want To Defend? March 18, 2025
They are playing war games but don't truly believe that Europe’s values are worth fighting for....
Trump Is Making Europe Great Again March 18, 2025
In his recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, Elon Musk said: “Reality is an irony maximiser.” For anyone who wants to understand more about Musk’s role in the US administration and the objectives of his brainchild – the department of government...
Europe Is Going Full 1790s America March 18, 2025
Trump and Russia are pushing the EU toward a “Hamiltonian moment,” where common debt helps build greater federalism. ...
Is China Losing Africa to India? March 18, 2025
"Africa is entering a period where, for the first time in modern history, it will not be dominated by external powers," Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association, told Newsweek. "The influence of Europe, Russia, the...
Europe Should Look to Churchill and de Gaulle March 17, 2025
Should we all be Gaullists now? In the language of France’s most important European partner, the answer is “Jein!” (a German word combining ja for yes and nein for no)....
The EU Needs a Proactive Approach in Bosnia March 17, 2025
Arminka Helić is a member of the British House of Lords and served as special adviser to U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague from 2010 to 2014. ...
Consequences With U.S.-Europe Security March 17, 2025
President Donald Trump has sent a clear message to Europe in his first six weeks back in office that the era during which the continent could assume an American security blanket would cover it is over. The corollary is that Europe must bolster its ow...
Congress Should Pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act March 17, 2025
Much ink has already been spilled on the antisemitism crisis plaguing the United States. As the new Trump administration seeks to crack down on antisemitism on university campuses, Congress should finally pass legislation which treats the subject wit...
Europe Cut Out and No One Cared February 28, 2025
Europe no longer has a place at the table. It is that simple. At the time of writing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are negotiating in Saudi Arabia about the future of Eastern Europe. There is a lot of huff...
Germany Can Seize the Moment for European Renewal February 28, 2025
Three times in the postwar era Germany made strategic choices that benefited Europe—with the US at its side. Now it must do it in opposition to Trump...
Macron’s Told-You-so Moment February 28, 2025
Trump vindicated the French president on self-reliant defense. But with Putin looming, the hard work starts now for Europe. ...
End ‘Pandemical Nervosity’ in Europe Over Trump February 27, 2025
This has been an eventful political week for Europe. The German Social Democratic Party (SPD), as expected, the party of Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and Gerhard Schroeder, has been thrown out of office with only a sixth of the total vote, its worst...
Europe Is Only as Weak as It Thinks It Is February 27, 2025
Europe has just held a rapid-fire series of high-profile summits. Following the Paris AI Action Summit and the Munich Security Conference, European leaders gathered for two emergency meetings in Paris to address the disturbing signals coming from the...
Can Merz Be the Leader Germany, and Europe, Needs? February 27, 2025
As expected, Friedrich Merz is set to become the next German chancellor after his conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) won one of the tightest and highest-turnout elections in the country’s postwar history....
The Future of the U.S. in Europe February 27, 2025
US President Donald Trump is a radically transparent person but still manages to surprise. After promising for years that he would put pressure on Ukraine to agree with Russia to halt fighting, Trump has recently followed through. He directed his adm...
Europe’s Muzzling the Voice of the People February 26, 2025
The fight Vice President JD Vance recently picked with our European allies concerned much more than free speech. ...
Europe Can’t Silence Its Working Class Forever February 26, 2025
Last December the European Commission published its ‘priorities’ for the next five years. All the bases were covered, from defence to sustainable prosperity to social fairness. And of course, the most important priority of all, democracy. ‘Europe’s f...
Can Trump Make Europe Relevant Again? February 26, 2025
Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 essay, “The End of History?” posited that liberal democracy had triumphed as the ultimate form of government, marking an endpoint in humanity’s ideological evolution. While Fukuyama’s thesis captured the optimism of the post-C...
Trump’s New Map February 26, 2025
In a prophetic speech delivered in Brussels in June 2011, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned Washington’s European allies that if they did not start paying substantially more for their own security, NATO might one day be a thing of th...
Only Poland Can Save NATO February 26, 2025
In July 2028, Europe holds its breath. Russian troops, reinvigorated since the dismemberment of Ukraine three years earlier, have gathered by their hundreds of thousands on the frontiers of the EU....
Can Europe Replace the U.S. in Ukraine? February 25, 2025
But both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and military analysts think that while losing U.S. support will be a major blow and will hit deliveries of key weapons, Ukraine backed by its European allies will be able to keep fighting for many mont...
How To Prevent the Next War in Europe February 25, 2025
Europe and Ukraine are on the brink of disaster. An emergency program is needed that relieves the US, strengthens Ukraine—and prevents the war from spreading. This is what it could look like...
Trump Is Shaking Europe From Slumber February 25, 2025
President Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working. ...
Why Europe Should Put Boots on the Ground in Ukraine February 25, 2025
With President Donald Trump having failed to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office—as he had promised—Europe faces a profound, and admittedly difficult, choice: either take a decisive role in securing peace in Ukraine, with all the ...
Trump Should Dump His “Rare Earth” Offer With Ukraine February 24, 2025
One of the key campaign pledges President Donald Trump made during the 2024 election was to end the years-long war in Ukraine. The then-candidate stated that it was in the American interest to negotiate a deal to finish the war. Trump was also criti...
Trump Should Cut Off Europe’s Defense Welfare Queens February 24, 2025
However, the president shouldn’t dictate to European allies how they should handle their own security. ...
The Security Threats Europe Refuses To See February 24, 2025
The 2025 Munich Security Conference (MSC) opened in the shadow of terrorism. On opening day, a disgruntled 24-year-old asylum seeker rammed his car into a crowd at a trade union rally, killing a mother and child and wounding dozens of others. It was ...
Europe Must Be Stronger, or It Will Die February 24, 2025
Over the last weeks, the words and actions of the Trump administration have caused the biggest rift between the United States and Europe since the end of the Cold War. Relations between the longstanding partners are more strained now than they were i...
Trump’s Worldview Becoming Clear for All To See February 24, 2025
Last week in Europe, the United States sent some very strong messages it is prepared to upend the established global order. ...
A Catastrophe Looming for the Horn of Africa February 24, 2025
An unstable Horn of Africa spells major trouble for Europe. The EU should take the reins in the Western response to counter the fallout from the aid withdrawal...
Poland: Washington’s Model Ally in Europe February 24, 2025
Amidst the flurry of diplomatic activity over the past couple of weeks in Brussels and Munich, the first bilateral visit of US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was not to London, Paris, or Berlin, but to Warsaw....
Europe Can’t Do It Alone February 24, 2025
It might be too much for the Trump administration to expect that Europe will guarantee a Ukraine peace settlement they had no part in making. ...
Germany’s Ominous Election Campaign February 22, 2025
To restore much-needed German impetus in Europe, the country’s next government must find a new sense of urgency and common purpose...
Europe Is Becoming an Afterthought for the World February 21, 2025
Sometimes a fight reflects badly on everyone. Consider the Meltdown in Munich — the cluster of transatlantic meetings around the Munich Security Conference over the weekend. ...
President Trump Is Dealing With Reality In Ukraine February 21, 2025
For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. Th...
The End of the World’s Four Legacy Empires December 30, 2024
Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words still capture the epochal change that may await us just over history’s horizon. “For now we see in a gl...
Europe’s Farmers Dealt a Righteous Blow to the Green Elites December 30, 2024
Europe’s governing classes have long been estranged from the real economy – from the world of production, industry and agriculture. ...
Democracy Is Rotting in Europe December 30, 2024
Last Friday, America announced sanctions against Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian tycoon who made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he was imposing the punishment because Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream party was ...
Trump’s ‘5 Percent Down’ Plan for Europe December 27, 2024
Five and dime stores are now a thing of the past in the U.S. But if the reporting in the Financial Times is accurate, President-elect Trump is signaling to NATO member-states that they must spend 5 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) annual...
Downturn of Pax Americana and the Middle East December 26, 2024
This essay considers structural parallels between the collapse of the Congress System in nineteenth-century Europe and the downturn of the pax americana in the Middle East today. ...
Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer December 26, 2024
When Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order to invade Ukraine in February 2022, he surely did not expect that one of Russia’s neighbors would be the main beneficiary of his war. Yet as Russian hydrocarbon exports to Europe cratered in the wa...
Offensive Strategy: The EU’s Economic Security December 24, 2024
Defensive economic strategies might slow Europe’s decline, but they won’t secure its future. Only bold reforms and an offensive trade agenda can restore its competitive edge...
Populists Bringing Down Euro Elites in 2024 December 24, 2024
Ukraine war fatigue coupled with economic woes and immigration concerns fueled a tide of revolt ...
Europe — Look East To Rebuild the Western Alliance December 21, 2024
Europe needs to embrace the incoming Trump administration’s priorities if it wants to strengthen transatlantic relationships. ...
Europe Should Not Have To Live Like This December 21, 2024
The Magdeburg Christmas Market attack in Germany is another reminder of how Europe has been made unsafe by mass immigration and multiculturalism....
Europe Debates How To Step up for Ukraine December 20, 2024
If there is one date on the calendar that Europe, Ukraine, and Russia are eyeing today, it's Jan. 20, 2025. Inauguration Day in America and the return of Donald Trump to the White House could bring significant U.S. policy changes, not only in Ukraine...
Von der Leyen’s Mission: Stop Europe’s Decline December 20, 2024
When Americans visit Europe, it’s usually to gawk at the monuments of the past: the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, the Enlightenment-era wonders of Paris and Vienna; the trenches and memorials of the continent’s two world wars. ...
The Definitive Case for Ukraine’s Victory December 19, 2024
What comes after the politics of resentment, fear, and polarization? We’ve spent years diagnosing the ailments affecting Free Societies—our divisions and dysfunctions—but have come back empty-handed. We looked for solutions in policy debates and opin...
China’s New Social Contract December 19, 2024
Europe’s view of China has evolved rapidly in recent decades. What began as a broad lack of knowledge about the country gave way to curiosity about its history and culture. China’s economic rise further piqued Europeans’ interest, particularly after ...
“Dunkelflaute” Roils The European Energy Market December 19, 2024
If Europe continues down the path of intermittent renewables reliance, without adding to its nuclear energy capacity, it will find it difficult to maintain their economic competitiveness. ...
A Saudi Path to a Peaceful, Modern Middle East December 18, 2024
Matthew Kaminski is editor-at-large, writing regularly for POLITICO Magazine on American and global affairs. He’s the founding editor of POLITICO Europe, which launched in 2015, and former editor-in-chief of POLITICO. He previously worked for the Fin...
Russia’s Invasion Has Drawn in Dozens of Countries. December 18, 2024
If you had walked the front lines in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, you might have heard shouts in Ukrainian and Russian, perhaps mingled with voices speaking regional languages such as Buryat and Chechen. ...
How Syria Will Shape Europe’s Future December 14, 2024
War is of its nature an uncertain business. Only in retrospect does Assad’s fall, so improbable last week, now look fated....
The Elite Crackdown on Ukraine Dissent December 14, 2024
As the war between Russia and Ukraine is framed by the ruling politicians and commentators in Europe and America as part of a purported global struggle between democracies and autocracies, the quality of democracy in the West itself has taken a hit. ...
The Paris Accords As “Climate Insurance”—Unaffordable and Unnecessary December 13, 2024
[The following is based on remarks delivered by Koonin and Mills at an MIT Free Speech Alliance debate, which can be viewed here.]The climate change debate continues to rage. Though the science remains “unsettled,” what does seem settled is that Pres...
The Partition of Poland in the South Caucasus December 11, 2024
In September 1939, the world witnessed a tragic turn of events as Poland was invaded and subsequently partitioned between two totalitarian regimes: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This division arose from the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a no...
Europe Is Woefully Unprepared for Trump December 11, 2024
The decline of past empires always began with a loss of the ability to adapt to changing environments. The American empire postponed its adjustment to the post-1989 environment until the tenure of the 45th president. It was Donald Trump who drew conc...
Europe’s Next Top Diplomat Is Ready To Be Undiplomatic December 09, 2024
Will Kaja Kallas be able to make her voice heard? ...
The Ukraine War Requires a Negotiated Settlement December 09, 2024
Ending the war will spare Europe years of further instability....
European Civilization Is in Freefall December 09, 2024
According to the president-elect’s critics, dark days lie ahead with Donald Trump on the world stage once more. I couldn’t disagree more. In fact, Trump 2.0 may just be the catalyst needed to jolt not just America, but the UK and Europe out of their ...
Don’t Blame Populism for the Chaos in France December 06, 2024
When Emmanuel Macron first ascended to the presidency in 2017, he was cheered as the man to restore normality to French politics, and to save Europe from the ‘leprosy’ of populism....
Is Europe Sleepwalking Into Irrelevance? December 06, 2024
The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, one of the country’s leading publications, devoted its front page story on Saturday, November 9th to claiming in large print—and framed by an even larger menacing photo of Donald Trump—that “This is the New World Or...