Week Ender: Verhofstadt on "Trumpism", plus summer must-reads
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Why are Commission staffers so miserable?
Working at the European Commission is one of the most coveted civil service jobs in Brussels. Yet, officials employed there describe high pr...
Europe's Palantir problem
Europe wants to kick its U.S. tech habit, but it’s struggling to detangle itself from American data analytics firm Palantir. The problem is,...
Can Europe contain the Ceuta fallout?
Home affairs ministers are meeting this morning as the fallout of the Ceuta crisis continues to roil Europe. Last week’s sudden influx of mi...
Ceuta triggers two days of EU emergency talks
The crisis in the Spanish territory of Ceuta is adding fuel to Europe’s bitter debate over migration. Following the arrival of more than 50,...
Week Ender — Searing Contradiction: Wildfires and climate politics
Wildfires may sound remote — something that happens deep in a forest or on an empty mountainside. But in Europe, there’s often very little d...
The race to save von der Leyen’s big speech
Brussels may have entered summer mode, but one of the first big political moments everyone will be watching when they return to work is Comm...
The spectacular split in Poland’s right
Poland’s once-dominant Law and Justice party has split, with former PM Mateusz Morawiecki breaking with longtime leader Jarosław Kaczyński a...
Can Europe fight fires this big?
Wildfires raging across France and Spain have forced more than 300,000 people from their homes and stretched national firefighting services...
Trump reopens the tariff fight
Icelanders begin voting on whether to restart accession talks with the European Union, reopening a debate shaped by security fears, economic...
Will Europe warm to Britain's new Prime Minister?
He’s the seventh British prime minister to walk through the famous black door of Number 10 Downing Street since the Brexit vote 10 years ago...
Brussels is coming for Google — and the bill could be huge
Google could be hit with the largest fine yet under the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Zoya Sheftalovich and Kathryn Carlson explain why Brussels...
The EU’s Russia sanctions crunch
Today is a make-or-break moment for the EU’s 21st sanctions package targeting Russia. After EU countries failed to agree on the ins and outs...
Zoya and the crew answer your questions
July 21 is a national holiday in Belgium, so we decided to do things a bit differently on this long weekend. We recently celebrated our 100t...
Week Ender: Did Europe dodge a summer travel crisis?
Europeans are traveling in huge numbers this summer — but the conflict in the Middle East, volatile fuel prices linked to disruption in the...
Parliament takes a break. The plotting begins.
The European Parliament’s 719 lawmakers are about to head off on their six-week summer break. But that doesn’t mean an end to the political...
The border that vanished overnight
European allies are moving to help strengthen Ukraine as Kyiv ups the pressure in its war against Russia. As a part of that push, Commission...
A 'Super Tuesday' for a bigger EU
Enlargement is high on the list of priorities for the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU ... and Dublin is not wasting any time. On t...
Why Europe still can’t agree on Israel
EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels as a growing group of countries push the European Commission to propose restrictions on trade with ill...
Week Ender: Why Europe can’t avoid Erdogan
This week, NATO leaders gathered in Ankara — giving President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a powerful stage at a moment when Turkey’s strategic valu...