Europe
Tiphaine Auzière and the panic inside the Élysée
Since COVID, the cocky self-confidence of Macron’s team has been replaced with doubt
COVID has killed the EU’s crowning achievement
In a crisis, it turns out that borders are the easiest dividing line to enforce
Spain’s bureaucracy may not survive COVID
Some in Madrid blame the central government, some blame the regional government, and some blame both
How closely linked are lockdown and Brexit?
In our collective subconscious, the same cleavage in British society remains
Germany’s second wave puts an end to the party
Some restrictions that had been lifted during the summer have been put back in place
The collapse of the Cambridge Analytica Brexit conspiracy theory
There was always a whiff of desperation to the Cambridge Analytica obsession
The Caucasian conflict that could spark a war
As in World War One, it will not take much for the conflict to really heat up
Azerbaijan’s view of the Armenian conflict
‘You can consider this operation as peace enforcement, forcing Armenia to peace’
Macron’s fight with the far left over extremism
The majority response to the French president’s promise to combat Islamic extremism is skepticism
Britain clambers aboard the BLM bandwagon
The public does not buy into the notion that there is ‘structural’ racism in the UK. There isn’t
Berlin’s underground is the latest battleground in Germany’s culture war
The renaming of Mohrenstrasse is a rich irony
The fall of Golden Dawn
The party may have imploded, but the dangers of Greek neo-Nazism haven’t gone away
The EU is adrift and in search of an anchor
The block is starting to recognize its weaknesses
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan on the Azerbaijani conflict
‘It is obviously a coordinated action by Turkey and Azerbaijan. Turkey is managing the whole process’
Germany’s ‘reckless’ coronavirus era is over
Germany’s leaders are reintroducing restrictions after lifting most of them during the summer
What’s behind the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
The EU and Nato have expressed ‘deep concern’ but the most decisive actors remain Turkey and Russia
Why is Jamie Oliver so against freedom of choice?
Though the US has different standards on food production from the EU, there is no convincing evidence that they are worse
A Brexit breakthrough could be on the cards
The British side now view the remaining problems as being more about process than substance
Has terror returned to the streets of Paris?
A man attacked several people close to the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo with a meat cleaver
Marilyn moment: is this the man who will replace Angela Merkel?
Bavaria’s carnival king could be the next German chancellor
Time for me to be more assertive
I thought Boris Johnson was crap long before Toby Young and Fraser Nelson did
Could we see COVID anti-virals before a vaccine?
It was therapeutic drugs that in the end made HIV less deadly
The truth about Sweden’s voluntary lockdown
Sweden’s approach is neither an irresponsible threat to public health nor a libertarian dream
What’s the real reason for Joe Biden’s Brexit threats?
All of this is what Biden, a fifth-generation Irish American, would call ‘malarkey’
Merkel ally claims ‘Britain is joining the ranks of despots’
Detlef Seif had some choice words for the UK government
