The conventional wisdom about European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen’s confirmation by the European Parliament this month is that Central...
Populist rule is invariably associated with corruption, nepotism and incompetence. Why, then, do populists appear immune to scandal? Revelations that would...
Donald Tusk’s term as president of the European Council will end on Nov. 30, which is perfect timing for the Polish opposition. After the parliamentary...
Following the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, a group of young Polish activists and artists donned T-shirts that read: “I did not cry for the Pope.” At a...
The murder of Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz has sent Poland into a tailspin. The nature of the crime speaks to the febrile state of Polish politics under the...
The terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, on Dec. 11 came after a month in which the “yellow vest” protests in Paris and...
An old joke among non-Americans is that they, too, deserve a vote in U.S. presidential elections, given how central that office is to their lives. When...
The German Social Democrats’ (SPD) existential crisis can no longer be treated as a typical party crisis. The party captured a mere 9.7 percent of the vote in...
Massive protests in Warsaw have made headlines around the world in recent weeks. Poles are demonstrating against legislation enacted by the ruling Law and...
Divisions within Germany’s ruling coalition over refugees have started to jeopardize Chancellor Angela Merkel’s control of the government. To put down a...
Discussions surrounding the European Union’s 2021-27 budget are intensifying, owing to many European policymakers’ insistence that regional development funds...
Because populism is not an ideology in itself, it can easily appeal to mainstream political parties seeking to shore up flagging electoral support.There are...
Donald Trump came, he saw, he conned. The U.S. president’s trip to Poland, a stop on his way to the G-20 summit in Hamburg, was arranged at the last minute:...
Wednesday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Poland, where he met with Central and Eastern European leaders Thursday at a summit of the Three...
Democrats of all stripes have been celebrating the prospect that the pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron – not the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen...
So far, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Polish Law and Justice (PiS) party chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s “illiberal” counterrevolution has meant...
Until his recent bungled attempt to block Donald Tusk’s re-election as European Council President, Poland’s de facto leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, may have...
European Union leaders are set to announce their choice for President of the European Council at a summit on March 9. Until very recently, the re-election of...
The rule of economic liberalism in the West is leading to the demise of political liberalism. A growing number of key countries are experiencing not...