Europe Has Economic Power. Can It Use It Against Trump’s Tariffs?
The European Union, taken as a whole, is America’s biggest trading partner. That makes President Trump’s fresh tariffs espe...
FSB v Army
TWO WEEKS after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Sergei Beseda’s mobile phone went dead. Mr Beseda, a general in the ...
Germany’s Mütterrente is a poor way to pay parents
GERMANY’S constitutional debt brake has led to chronic underinvestment, so Friedrich Merz’s move to exempt both a €500bn ($53...
Europe cannot fathom what Trumpian America wants from it
Carl von Clausewitz, a 19th-century Prussian general, described warfare as “the realm of uncertainty”. The fellow never had t...
Irish willingness to join NATO could ease unification
In 1949, when America’s ambassador handed Ireland’s foreign minister an invitation to join NATO, the answer was a polite no. ...
Marine Le Pen’s ban polarises France
For the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement i...
Russia’s army is being subordinated to its security services
TWO WEEKS after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Sergei Beseda’s mobile phone went dead. Mr Beseda, a general in the ...
Putin Envoy Says He’s in U.S. for Talks With Trump Administration
A Kremlin envoy said on Thursday that he was meeting with the Trump administration in Washington this week, the first time in...
Not Even a Royal Invite Spared the U.K. From Trump’s Tariffs
After all that — the chummy Oval Office meeting, the extraordinary royal invitation, the paeans to the “special relationship”...
Hungary Announces ICC Withdrawal as Netanyahu Visits
Hungary said on Thursday that it would pull out of the International Criminal Court, announcing its decision just hours after...