King Charles III’s secret kingdom
For decades, as he awaited his turn to ascend the British throne, Charles presided over another kingdom: rural Transylvania. What…
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Giorgia Meloni shouldn’t be normalised
Following the Italian prime minister’s meeting with Rishi Sunak last week, too many seem willing to cast her as a…
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Is Emmanuel Macron running out of options?
The French president is at risk of being remembered not as an ambitious reformer but as the leader who handed…
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Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq
The US linguist on the war in Ukraine, how the West is provoking China and why the UK is “not…
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Europe’s centrist parties let industry rot and society fragment. Now they’re being punished for it
In Italy, France, Germany and Britain, the flight of voters to the political extremes can be mapped on to neglected…
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China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy is pushing it closer to Russia
The Chinese ambassador to France said that ex-Soviet states don’t have an “effective status under international law”.
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Emmanuel Macron’s appeasement tour is off to a rough start
As he visits the regions, can the French leader move on from the pension reform protests and relaunch his presidency?
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The EU cannot afford to take sides in the contest between the US and China
Europe’s economy, dependent on global supply chains, is not built for Cold War-style relations.
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