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Christine Lagarde’s Hardest Task Isn’t In Her Job Description

As ECB president, Christine Lagarde will have to contend with the internally divided bank and the possibly recalcitrant finance ministers of the eurozone.

Erik Jones

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Monetary Issues Nov 5, 2019 Snapshot

Christine Lagarde’s Hardest Task Isn’t In Her Job Description

As ECB president, Christine Lagarde will have to contend with the internally divided bank and the possibly recalcitrant finance ministers of the eurozone.

Erik Jones

Brexit Oct 17, 2019 Snapshot

Are Populists Unusually Prone to Political Blunders?

In the DNA of Far-Right Demagogues Is a Blueprint for Their Demise

Lukas Kaelin and Benjamin Kaelin

Trump Administration Oct 9, 2019 Snapshot

The Not So Special Relationship

When it needs a strong, reliable relationship with the United States more than ever, the United Kingdom looks across the pond with doubt and uncertainty. Even those...

Steve Bloomfield

U.S. President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May in London in June 2019

Political Philosophy Aug 23, 2019 Snapshot

The Myth and Meaning of Resistance

Seventy-five years later, understanding what drove France's "army of shadows."

Robert Zaretsky

Foreign Policy September/October 2019 Essay

The Old World and the Middle Kingdom

Europe needs to level the economic playing field with China and guard against Chinese political influence, but it remains divided over how seriously to take the...

Julianne Smith and Torrey Taussig

East Meets West: Xi, Macron, and Merkel in Paris, March 2019

NATO Jun 17, 2019 Snapshot

How to Save the Transatlantic Alliance

The current damage to the transatlic relationship will outlast Trump. Saving the alliance will require hard work from Europe and the United States alike.

Norbert Röttgen

At an European Union summit in Brussels, Belgium May 2019

NATO July/August 2019 Essay

Europe Alone

The transatlantic relationship was in trouble long before Trump began inveighing against the EU, NATO, and European carmakers. What will it take to revive it?

Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad

A mural attributed to the British artist Banksy at the Port of Dover in the United Kingdom, December 2018

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Jun 6, 2019 Snapshot

Jihadists Head Home

Western ISIS fighters and their children are stuck in camps and prisons in northern Syria and Iraq. Their governments don’t want to take them back—and are resorting to...

Jytte Klausen

Women at an IDP camp in northeastern Syria, April 2019

EU Jun 3, 2019 Snapshot

What’s Left of the Left?

The optimistic illusions of the left have been replaced by the dark imaginings of the nationalist right.

Mitchell Abidor

Socialist Party/Place Publique candidate Raphaël Glucksmann at a rally in Lyon, May 2019

Europe May 23, 2019 Snapshot

The Elections That Will Decide Europe’s Future

Can the EU overcome its democratic deficit?

Saim Saeed

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage gestures as he leaves a polling station after voting in the European elections, in Biggin Hill, United Kingdom, May 2019

Trump Administration May 13, 2019 Snapshot

Viktor Orban Wants Trump’s Help in the European Elections

Will Trump endorse Orban's populist project in the European elections?

Kim Lane Scheppele

Salvini and Orban at a press conference in Budapest, May 2019

EU Apr 3, 2019 Snapshot

Why Europe Is Getting Tough on China

As next week’s EU-China summit approaches, Europe has begun to fundamentally rethink its China policies.

Andrew Small

French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attend a meeting at the Élysée Palace in Paris, France, March 2019

Brexit Mar 27, 2019 Snapshot

The Brexit Breakup Gets Messier

Divorce negotiations have set off a heated debate about the United Kingdom’s future relationship with the European Union and strained arrangements with Northern...

Amanda Sloat

EU supporters at a demonstration in London, March 2019

Civil Society Feb 20, 2019 Snapshot

Oh, The Humanité

L’Humanité, the newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF), has gone bankrupt at the moment of France’s greatest wave of popular protest since 1968: the “yellow...

Mitchell Abidor

At a yellow vests protest in Paris, France, December 2018

Post-Conflict Reconstruction Jan 8, 2019 Snapshot

Warnings From Versailles

A hundred years on, 1919 and the years that followed still stand as a somber warning about the dangers of isolationism and short-sighted leadership.

Margaret MacMillan

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Dec 19, 2018 Snapshot

Why Jihadist Attacks Have Declined in Europe

Europe is now at the end of a wave of jihadist violence that began on November 13, 2015, with a series of ISIS attacks in Paris. European governments should celebrate...

Jytte Klausen

French Gendarmes in Strasbourg after last week's attack, December 2018.

EU Dec 10, 2018 Snapshot

Broken Europe

Europe's structural contradictions mean it will never succeed.

Helen Thompson

Macron and Merkel at the NATO Summit in Brussels, July 2018.

Europe Nov 2, 2018 Snapshot

Angela Merkel’s Vision Problem

Angela Merkel's recent announcement that she will hand over the leadership of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) this December, and refrain from seeking another term...

Yascha Mounk

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a session at the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, October 17, 2018

The Best of 2018 Oct 17, 2018 Snapshot

Is Going It Alone the Best Way Forward for Europe?

With U.S. untethering a continuing trend, a Europe whole, free, and at peace means a Europe able to fend for itself on the world stage

Benjamin Haddad and Alina Polyakova

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a press conference after their meeting at the German government guesthouse Meseberg Palace in Meseberg, Germany, June 2018.

Trump Administration Oct 10, 2018 Snapshot

The EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran

U.S. sanctions on Iran are pushing the world to undercut U.S. power.

Elizabeth Rosenberg

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini address a news conference at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria, January 2016.

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How to Save the Transatlantic Alliance

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