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Meloni will continue to play to the center — for now
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. Withholding her backing for Ursula von der Leyen’s second term as European Commission president, Italian Prime...
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The drift toward unfreedom
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Every generation in a democratic country has had to decide the right balance between individual liberty, national security and community wellbeing....
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The EU fiddles while Kyiv burns
Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Daniel Fried is a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former U.S....
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How Europe should react to the US presidential elections
Jörg Rocholl is the president of the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin. Too close to call and too difficult to predict. Even with two months to go until the U.S. presidential...
View ArticleEU was not fully ready to respond to Covid-19, says auditor
The EU’s medical agencies were not fully prepared to address the Covid-19 pandemic — and would still fall short now — according to a new report from the European Court of Auditors. The EU’s first...
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Radical left and radical right have become indistinguishable
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book is “In Search of Berlin,” published by Atlantic. Is Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s politician of the moment, far right or...
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Building a shared finance and security vision between Britain and Europe
Tom Keatinge is director for the Centre for Finance & Security at RUSI. Kinga Redlowska is head of the Centre for Finance & Security at RUSI Europe. The increasingly unstable global...
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The Red Sea: Time for India’s Modi to step in
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. A second attempt to rescue the Greek tanker...
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Former Poland PM: ‘We’re living under the illusion of environmentalism’
Mateusz Morawiecki is the former prime minister of the Republic of Poland. I previously wrote in POLITICO about a trap I call “Europe’s Impossible Trinity” — what I see as the impossibility of...
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The European Green Deal must go global
Simone Tagliapietra, Cecilia Trasi and Giovanni Sgaravatti are all researchers at Bruegel. Over the last five years, the European Green Deal has generated a wave of unprecedented legislation, which...
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Nigel Farage is right: Britain’s Remainers are back
LONDON — For successive Tory governments, the most feared parliamentary tribe was the European Research Group. For the best part of a decade after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, the...
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Reenvisioning Europe’s digital sovereignty
Mark Scott and Konstantinos Komaitis are senior resident fellows at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Mark Scott is a former POLITICO correspondent. After the announcement of the...
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EU betting on India and Vietnam for chips
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. Hoping to diversify supply chains and be less dependent on semiconductor chips from either China or Taiwan, Western countries are...
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What a Trump victory would really mean for Europe
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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Biden needs to be the last Irish-American US president
Eoin Drea is senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. Even by the shameless standard of attempting to claim every American president as Irish, Joe Biden’s April...
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Draghi report on Europe’s competitiveness falls short
Daniel Gros is director of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. How to improve European competitiveness? According to former Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s...
View Article7 ways the US is beating Europe
BRUSSELS ― The United States and the European Union have faced similar challenges over the past couple of decades, with the financial crash and the Covid pandemic wreaking economic havoc, taking years...
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Estonian president: Tear down the wall of restrictions we’ve built around...
Alar Karis is the president of the Republic of Estonia. When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, I was a 31-year-old researcher at the Estonian Biocentre of the Academy of Sciences with two young...
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Europe’s naivety toward Iran is misplaced
Oliver Rolofs is a strategic security and communication expert and the director of the Austrian Institute for Strategic Studies and International Cooperation. He was previously the head of...
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G7’s Ukraine loan is at risk
Armin Steinbach is a professor of law and economics at HEC Paris and a non-resident fellow at Bruegel. In June 2024, the G7 pledged a $50 billion loan to Ukraine — a promise they hoped would signal...
View ArticleGeorgia’s pivot to Russia ‘might be a plan,’ president says
“Where are you taking Georgia?” This is the question Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has for Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire oligarch under whose influence the Georgian government has...
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Breaking up with Google: Why the EU should back the US
Cori Crider is a lawyer and a senior fellow at the Future of Tech Institute and Open Markets Institute. “Google’s unlawful conduct persisted for over a decade.” A decade ago, it would have been...
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Revealed: Putin’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet is secretly spilling oil all...
Revealed: Putin’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet is spilling oil all over the world Satellite imagery shows the unforeseen consequences of efforts to hobble Russia’s war economy. By VICTOR JACK,...
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The Greens’ dilemma
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia is a freelance journalist and contributing editor at REVOLVE. His work has been published by outlets including Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, Wired, MIT Tech Review, among...
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Is this the end for Georgian Dream?
Konstantin Ionatamishvili is chairman of the European Initiative — Georgia NGO, which focuses on the country’s democratic development and Western integration. He’s a board member of the Baltic to...
View ArticleBrussels vs Moscow: The EU risks losing its eastern neighbors
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music A vote that was supposed to be a slam dunk in favor of the EU turned into a nail-biter: barely 50 percent of Moldovans backed the country’s accession...
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Europe or Russia? For Georgians, the choice isn’t so simple
TBILISI — Am I delusional? Reporting on Georgian politics ahead of Saturday’s decisive parliamentary elections, I find myself struggling with this question over and over again. Turn on the TV here,...
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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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Putin’s cash crunch
Peter Doran is an adjunct senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. It seems the Kremlin’s finance wizards are running out of rabbits to pull out of the hat. The Russian government...
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An elegy for Georgia’s democracy
Michael Hikari Cecire is an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government....
View ArticleCOP16 fizzles out as rich countries block global nature fund
The United Nations COP16 biodiversity talks in Cali, Colombia, were suspended on Saturday after rich countries blocked a proposal to set up a new fund to help poorer nations restore their depleted...
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