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    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      World elections will shape the outcome of the war in Ukraine

      US, Russian and Ukrainian presidential contests in 2024 could be as important as events on the battlefield

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      Geopolitics
      Middle Powers are reshaping geopolitics

      Regionally strong countries such as Turkey share a determination to be at the table rather than on the menu

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Russian politics
      Ukraine’s counter-offensive has left Putin encircled at home

      Kyiv’s military successes have forced the Russian president into making choices he wished to avoid

    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      European Union
      The EU is losing control of events on its conflict-ridden periphery

      Failure is most evident in the Balkans, ill-suited to political models devised in western Europe

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin’s aggressive autocracy reduces Russian soft power to ashes

      The assault on Ukraine is causing a sharp cultural break with the west that may last far into the future

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      Geopolitics
      To isolate Russia is not in the west’s power or interest

      Treating the entire country as a geopolitical Chernobyl would be a strategic blunder

    • Friday, 11 March, 2022
      Russian politics
      The west cannot turn its back on ordinary Russians

      It would be a historic mistake to assume that autocracy is destiny in Moscow

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      EU immigration
      Europe is terrified of its attractiveness to outsiders

      The Belarus border crisis shows that the EU’s biggest fear is the return of anti-migrant rightwing populism

    • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
      Populism
      Central European populists feel the effect of Trump’s defeat

      Not only do Poland and Hungary lose an ally but for them, Joe Biden’s US is a threat

    • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Life after Covid-19: What are we going to do now?

      The Pope, Ivan Krastev and Fareed Zakaria on processing the pandemic

    • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
      Populism
      Donald Trump’s defeat would deal a blow to European populism

      Victory for Joe Biden in November would empower liberals in former Habsburg lands

    • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Copycat coronavirus policies will soon come to an end

      As countries consider how and when to lift lockdowns, a variety of approaches will show policy health

    • Monday, 27 January, 2020
      Demographics and population
      Depopulation is eastern Europe’s biggest problem

      There is a connection between the twin crises of democracy and demography

    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
      European companies
      Orban’s vision of a new Europe will struggle to succeed

      Hungarian PM is preoccupied with battling Brussels as country’s citizens lose faith

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
      EU enlargement
      EU goes back to the future in the Balkans

      Russia and Turkey are united in their efforts to reduce the bloc’s influence

    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2016
      Brexit
      Pessimists hold the key to Europe’s future

      Most in the Visegrad states are positive about the EU but worry about its survival, writes Ivan Krastev

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
      EU immigration
      Fear and loathing of a world without borders

      In Europe there is anxiety that foreigners will compromise traditions, writes Ivan Krastev

    • Wednesday, 5 March, 2014
      The World blogEuropean banks
      Smart Reads March 5, 2014
    • Tuesday, 12 March, 2013
      Global InsightEU economy
      East’s ‘transition backlash’ alerts core EU

      Troubles in Bulgaria and elsewhere go behind anti-austerity protests

    • Thursday, 28 June, 2012
      Philip Stephens
      Soviet collapse holds a lesson for the euro

      Faith in currency’s survival offers an increasingly threadbare shield against gathering storms

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2012
      Philip Stephens
      A Hungarian coup worthy of Putin

      The troubles of Europe’s small powers can be a harbinger of bigger dangers around the corner

    • Wednesday, 20 October, 2010
      World
      We need new rules for a multipolar Europe

      Russia, Turkey and the EU want ‘neighbourhood policies’, write Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard

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