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  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Is Ukraine’s future West German?

    Nato membership will be essential to any negotiated end to the war with Russia

    Vladimir Putin during his interview with Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    European Union
    The EU still has an Orbán problem

    But defeat for the Hungarian premier on Ukraine’s future membership shows his ability to disrupt could be waning

    Viktor Orbán
  • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    With all eyes on the Middle East, does the west have a viable strategy for Ukraine?

    New polling suggests western public opinion is not convinced that this is a winnable war

    A group of people stand inside a railroad carriage that has a clinical layout
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Geopolitics
    ‘Secret Hitler’ and the risks of real-life liberal confusion

    How a popular board game that pits two teams against one another has lessons for democracies

    Various coloured cards and title tags with words such as ‘ballot’, yes’, ‘no’, ‘president’ and ‘chancellor’ dot a game board
  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    Russian politics
    There is now a ‘collective Putin’ in the Kremlin

    The Russian president has come to fear his elites as much as they fear him

    Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting dedicated to tourism development in Derbent in the southern region of Dagestan, Russia, last month
  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Shadowlands of empire: central Europe’s nervous east-west gaze

    Putin’s war on Ukraine exposes not only a rift between Russia and the west, but also divisions within eastern Europe

    A long line of vehicles and people on a road, heading towards the sunset
  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    French politics
    Democracies can’t take too much drama

    In an ideal world, electoral politics should cool passions, not inflame them

    Riot police stand in line as a young woman speaks into a megaphone
  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    For many outside the west, Russia is not important enough to hate

    Indifference to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine has left western analysts flummoxed

    Xi Jinping of China, Narendra Modi of India and Vladimir Putin of Russia
  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    World elections will shape the outcome of the war in Ukraine

    US, Russian and Ukrainian presidential contests in 2024 could be as important as events on the battlefield

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    Geopolitics
    Middle Powers are reshaping geopolitics

    Regionally strong countries such as Turkey share a determination to be at the table rather than on the menu

    Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the G20 in Bali
  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    Russian politics
    Ukraine’s counter-offensive has left Putin encircled at home

    Kyiv’s military successes have forced the Russian president into making choices he wished to avoid

    Illustration of Vladimir Putin portrait sketched in black & white, with red tie and the letter Z scribbled across his portrait
  • Monday, 1 August, 2022
    European Union
    The EU is losing control of events on its conflict-ridden periphery

    Failure is most evident in the Balkans, ill-suited to political models devised in western Europe

    A Bosnian man pushing a cart rushes for cover while crossing a street filled with burntout vehicles
  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin’s aggressive autocracy reduces Russian soft power to ashes

    The assault on Ukraine is causing a sharp cultural break with the west that may last far into the future

    An artwork from around 1700 showing Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, beheading one of the rebel Streltsy (semi-professional musketeers) in front of his nobles
  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Geopolitics
    To isolate Russia is not in the west’s power or interest

    Treating the entire country as a geopolitical Chernobyl would be a strategic blunder

    Ann Kiernan illustration showing planet Earth, with flames rising from Russia
  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    Russian politics
    The west cannot turn its back on ordinary Russians

    It would be a historic mistake to assume that autocracy is destiny in Moscow

    Ewan White illustration of Ivan Krastev story ‘The west cannot turn its back on ordinary Russians’
  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    EU immigration
    Europe is terrified of its attractiveness to outsiders

    The Belarus border crisis shows that the EU’s biggest fear is the return of anti-migrant rightwing populism

    Ewan White illustration of Ivan Krastev story ‘Europe is terrified of its attractiveness to outsiders’
  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Populism
    Central European populists feel the effect of Trump’s defeat

    Not only do Poland and Hungary lose an ally but for them, Joe Biden’s US is a threat

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Life after Covid-19: What are we going to do now?

    The Pope, Ivan Krastev and Fareed Zakaria on processing the pandemic

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Populism
    Donald Trump’s defeat would deal a blow to European populism

    Victory for Joe Biden in November would empower liberals in former Habsburg lands

    An anti-government protester holds Hungarian and EU flags in Budapest. A Joe Biden victory in the US election would impel illiberal governments in Warsaw and Budapest to seek reconciliation with Brussels
  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
    Coronavirus
    Copycat coronavirus policies will soon come to an end

    As countries consider how and when to lift lockdowns, a variety of approaches will show policy health

    People gather at a restaurant n in Stockholm on April 4, 2020, during the the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    Demographics and population
    Depopulation is eastern Europe’s biggest problem

    There is a connection between the twin crises of democracy and demography

    People wait at the regional department of foreigners' affairs where foreigners can get work and residency permits in central Warsaw on April 26, 2018. - To keep its economy growing, Poland is banking on workers from abroad. (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Michel VIATTEAU (Photo credit should read JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
    European companies
    Orban’s vision of a new Europe will struggle to succeed

    Hungarian PM is preoccupied with battling Brussels as country’s citizens lose faith

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, 2nd right, arrives for a for a new group of border guards known locally as “border hunters,” in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Orban, an early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has ordered the reinforcement of fences on Hungary’s southern borders to keep out migrants. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
    EU enlargement
    EU goes back to the future in the Balkans

    Russia and Turkey are united in their efforts to reduce the bloc’s influence

    A young boy rides a bicycle, 16 july 1992, past the wrecks of several cars, destroyed in combat in Sarajevo. (Photo credit should read PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2016
    Brexit
    Pessimists hold the key to Europe’s future

    Most in the Visegrad states are positive about the EU but worry about its survival, writes Ivan Krastev

    Warsaw
  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
    EU immigration
    Fear and loathing of a world without borders

    In Europe there is anxiety that foreigners will compromise traditions, writes Ivan Krastev

    TOPSHOT - A mother holds her child as she arrives along with other migrants and refugees aboard a Greek coast guard boat to the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos on March 29, 2016, after being rescued by Frontext and Greek coast guards. The United States will provide an additional $20 million (18 million euros) in aid for refugees in Europe, a senior US official said on March 28, 2016. Most of the funds -- $17.5 million -- will be given to the UN refugee agency, Higginbottom said during a visit to Lesbos, the island that has experienced most of the refugee arrivals registered in Greece since 2015, where there are over 2000 refugees and migrants according to the Greek government. / AFP PHOTO / --/AFP/Getty Images
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