The World’s Biggest Climate Bureaucrat Wants to Win an Election
Rotund and grey-bearded, the 62-year-old Dutch politician Frans Timmermans exudes the staid gravitas of a long-serving, rules-wielding bureaucrat—which isn’t far from the truth. For the...
The EU’s Plan for Ukraine Could Easily Backfire
On Nov. 8, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially recommended that Ukraine and Moldova open membership negotiations with Brussels soon, upon fulfilling certain...
Poland Is Dreaming of Becoming a Nuclear Power
WARSAW—Many things may be set to change in Poland now that the country’s largest liberal-minded group of parties, called Civic Coalition, is potentially in a...
Poland Is Throwing All Its Neighbors Under the Bus
POZNAN, Poland—Despite the fact that Poland’s archconservative ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) looks well placed to win its third straight election on Oct. 15,...
Why Soros Is Retreating From Europe
Disclosure: In 2022, FP partnered with the Open Society Foundations on events and research projects. The announcement by the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the global...
Rammstein Is Germany’s Scary New Normal
By Paul Hockenos It’s hard to overlook the way that the tumult and horror prompted by recent charges of sexual misconduct against German band Rammstein...
Germans Want Climate Policy—Just Not in Their Homes
Robert Habeck, Germany’s minister for industrial policy and climate protection, has ruminated that the job of astute leaders is to unknot the contradictions of politics—the...
Skilled Migrants Aren’t Interested in Germany
Germany faces a fundamental migration dilemma. Refugees from poor and war-torn countries flock to it as a haven while skilled professionals from outside of the...
It’s Ursula von der Leyen’s Europe—for Now
In the four years since she became European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen has mostly been praised by Brussels insiders and top officials around...
Europe’s Climate Movement Is Radicalizing in Real Time
Along the five city blocks that border the western edge of Friedrichshain park in Berlin, every campaign poster advertising the German Greens was torn down—only...