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    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      EU immigration
      Disarray of EU migration policy squeezes the space for rational debate

      Europe is hungry for newcomers to fill labour market gaps but rising numbers of irregular arrivals are fuelling the far right

      An overloaded boat of migrants arrives in Lampedusa
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Niger
      The Niger coup’s lessons for the US and France

      Two powers tread carefully, for fear they will drive the sub-Saharan state into Russian arms

      Supporters of Niger’s National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland hold national flags as they gather in Niamey on August 20
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      European Union
      Failure is not an option when it comes to EU enlargement

      Ukraine must be accommodated but expanding membership of the bloc will not be easy

      Volodymyr Zelensky appears on a big screen above rows of delegates as he addresses the summit
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      EU foreign policy
      Europe is feeling its way towards a new relationship with China

      In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, geopolitical realities are clashing with economic interests

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      French politics
      Emmanuel Macron must reset France’s Africa policy

      The old colonial power faces competition for influence on the continent, notably from China and Russia

      Emmanuel Macron in Cotonou, Benin, in 2022. The president is embarking this week on his 18th trip to Africa as president of France
    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Emmanuel Macron
      Hyperactive abroad, Emmanuel Macron is struggling at home

      The French president is once more running into problems over pension reform

      Emmanuel Macron faces an even more pessimistic country, which denied him a parliamentary majority barely two months after re-electing him
    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Poland
      Now could be Poland’s moment — but it needs to play by the rules

      Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given the country an opportunity, if it can only let go of its old hostilities

      An middle-aged woman and a young boy sit on a bench on a train station platform
    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      Brexit
      A wary Europe greets Sunak’s premiership with relief

      An end to British political chaos is welcome but the UK’s EU allies are still dismayed by the fallout from Brexit

      French president Emmanuel Macron and former UK prime minister Liz Truss in Prague earlier this month
    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      European Union
      War in Ukraine has shaken the EU’s power dynamics

      The Baltic states have seen their suspicion of Moscow vindicated and are newly assertive

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Latvian President Egils Levits and Estonian President Alar Karis
    • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
      German politics
      Germany is struggling to give shape to a new foreign policy

      Critics complain that Chancellor Olaf Scholz cannot say what the much-vaunted ‘turning point’ really amounts to

      Olaf Scholz delivers a speech on the Russian invasion of the Ukraine during a meeting of the Bundestag in February in Berlin
    • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      The west is divided over how the war in Ukraine must end

      Leaders are at odds over the question of just how crushing a Russian defeat should be

      Nato heads of state take a video call from Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, during a summit at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels in March 2022
    • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
      French presidential election
      Putin’s long shadow hangs over an unpredictable French election

      Le Pen closes in on Macron as the cost of living crisis trumps Ukraine in voters’ priorities

      Ewan White illustration of Sylvie Kauffmann story ‘Putin’s long shadow hangs over an unpredictable French election’
    • Sunday, 6 March, 2022
      European Union
      A new Europe is emerging from the tragedy of Ukraine

      The war has prompted urgent EU membership applications from countries seeking sanctuary from Russian aggression

      Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky addresses members of the European Parliament via video conference on March 1
    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      Emmanuel Macron
      Can Macron be trusted when it comes to Russia?

      The French leader faces suspicions around complacency towards Putin and his taste for an independent foreign policy

      Emmanuel Macron greets Vladimir Putin
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