Poland has chosen the politics of reaction
This presidential election shows a country irreconcilably split between its liberal and conservative halves.
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The Romanian diaspora’s hard-right surge
The hard-right presidential candidate Călin Georgescu’s success hinges on TikTok, economic resentment and a disaffected population abroad.
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George Robertson: Why Russia fears the European Union
The former Nato secretary general on his conversations with Vladimir Putin.
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Tusk is back
After eight years, Poland gets a new government. But Brussels shouldn’t celebrate yet.
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In defence of “what if?”
Why counterfactual history is an essential tool for understanding the present.
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Eastern Ukraine’s surging healthcare crisis
Doctors and NGOs near the war’s front lines report that a physical and mental health disaster is looming.
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The Zelensky myth
Why we should resist hero-worshipping Ukraine’s president.
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Radek Sikorski: Poland does not have “the influence on Europe’s eastern policy that we deserve”
The former Polish foreign minister on the war in Ukraine, relations with Germany and how the illiberal government can be…
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Estonia supports Ukraine because we know the devastation of Russian imperialism
Moscow’s full-scale war did not come as a surprise to us, but we didn’t believe it would so closely replay…
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The Ukraine war is shifting Europe’s balance of power from west to east
For the first time since 1989, central and eastern states are spearheading the continent’s response to a major crisis.
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How deadly could heatwaves in Europe get?
Over the past 40 years, more than 90,000 people have died during heatwaves across the continent and the UK.
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Is this the end of the Ukrainian moment?
European unity, strong in the first weeks of Russia’s war in Ukraine, will need reinforcement if it’s to be sustained.
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In Eastern Europe, Covid-19 has never been deadlier
The Delta variant has undone what little progress Eastern Europe had made on vaccination.
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How eastern Europe’s Covid-19 crisis surpassed the west
Slow vaccine roll-outs appear to have hit states such as Hungary and Czechia particularly hard.
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