What Geert Wilders Wants in Europe
On Nov. 22, Geert Wilders’s far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) won the most seats in the House of Representatives following national elections in the Netherlands....
Ursula von der Leyen Is Europe’s Ruthlessly Efficient Machine
During her annual State of the Union speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Sept. 13, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made...
Europe Has Traded Technocracy for Drama
Earlier this year, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the European Parliament in Brussels, he was received as a hero. It was an incredible spectacle,...
Europe’s Very Long Road to Geopolitics
In October 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis, ministers from the six member states of the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Union’s predecessor, met...
Europe’s Losers Have Become Its Winners Again
One of the nicer stories doing the rounds in Brussels these days is about how Europe’s COVID-19 recovery funds are spent. We’re talking here about...
Social Media Is Now a Financial WMD
The collapse of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse in March had many underlying causes, but its trigger was a tweet. The bank’s failure was the...
Ukraine’s War Has Finally Made Europe a Home
In The Spirit of the Laws, published in 1748, the French philosopher Montesquieu argued that one of the main elements binding the Dutch provinces together...