The EU’s Polish Dilemma
The problem of Warsaw’s illiberalism is not just legal but deeply political
European Power
The lesson of 2016: How to reverse the EU’s decline
What European policymaking needs now is a new devotion to grit-and-grind dispassion.
Russia’s heavy metal diplomacy
Mark Galeotti's op-ed on how Russia aims to divide, distract, dismay and dominate neighbours with 'heavy metal diplomacy'
Germany: Politics in times of terror
Initial reactions from the public have been marked by collective grief but not by calls for revenge
5 graphs that explain EU foreign policy making in 2017
There remains a core agreement on certain key values but the EU is deeply divided on immigration, on Russia, and perhaps soon on the United States.
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Consequences of Aleppo and crisis in Poland
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR Senior Policy Fellows Kadri Liik, Julien Barnes-Dacey and Anthony Dworkin about the Syrian situation and the prospects of…
UK Brexit debate still missing the point
Negotiations seldom go well if you do not understand where the other side is coming from
From Ankara with love/hate
Because Germany has deeper roots than any other European nation in Turkish society, it is also the country that is bearing the brunt of Turkey’s domestic problems
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Towards a German nuclear option?
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Christine Ockrent, journalist, Jana Puglierin, head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies, and Josef Janning,…