The Globalist

In its negotiations with the EU, the UK government still puts false hopes on “heavenly” intervention by Germany’s Angela Merkel.

A political decision principally made by the prime minister alone will determine what sort of exit from the EU we start 2021 with.

The West should support democracy in Belarus, but avoid provocative promises.

How Angela Merkel could effectively operate at the just-concluded European Summit on the basis of a well-hedged position.

Turkey’s president, desperate to boost his popularity at home, further damages his country’s international standing.

Imagine it is 1970 — and still there is no peace or reconciliation between France and Germany. Fast forward to the present and consider the situation in the West Balkans.

The weaker Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at home politically, the longer the list of the Turkish President’s transgressions gets.

To save our democracies from rising levels of frustration, we need more citizen councils.

One has to doubt that France’s new prime minister, Jean Castex, will pursue many reforms ahead of 2022.

Has Putin’s Russia of 2020 been foreshadowed by Russian novels, in a mixture of wicked satire and genuine tragedy?