Opinion

NATO and the EU have the power to protect this democracy and its values — but they need to be prepared.

We have all too often been complicit in the persecution of the country’s dissidents and exiles.

Escalating tensions threaten to hurl the country back into civil war, and will have consequences for Europe and the wider international community.

The bloc’s pledge to help Ukraine lacks an essential element: doing everything possible to ensure free and objective information.

The bloc must urgently implement a compensation scheme to prevent Putin from dividing member countries.

The country needs to develop a new, wiser political culture that seeks to stabilize its politics.

The problem of the last few years isn’t that we made the wrong promises — it’s that we haven’t delivered on them.

If we simply cling to the idea that negotiations will lead to resolution, we’ll be sleepwalking as we did with Russia.

As prejudiced rhetoric becomes a political fixture across the bloc, Europe is setting a disturbing tone.

EU membership doesn’t have to be a binary choice, governed by the one-size-fits-all strictures of previous enlargements.

The Italian prime minister’s ideas have been key to dealing with the challenges the continent has faced.

Those committed to resisting populism need to get better at fighting back — and need a stronger ethics system to do so.

The key to confronting this new culture of norms-busting may just lie in Fantacitorio, a game conceived to make sense of political absurdity.

As the geopolitical split in Eurasia widens, the country’s balancing act will be a hard feat to pull off.

The designation would have dramatic legal consequences for the war in Ukraine, and it’s time for the world to act.

In the Continent-wide shift away from dependency on Russian oil and gas, Central Europe is paving its own path.

The bloc’s revised code steps back from the fight at hand, directly capitulating to Silicon Valley platforms.

Unanimity in tax policy is detrimental to the principles that are supposed to underpin Europe’s social model.

Not all will share his enthusiasm for Brexit and its bold reassertion of national sovereignty, but none can deny its seismic significance.

As the ongoing quarrel spills over into the EU, leaders should shift their focus to the more practical concerns of their constituents.