Foreign Fighter Diaries

Foreign Fighter Diaries

Into Ukraine | Leaving family | Boots and a Kalashnikov | Air raids and sleeplessness | The unit gets a nurse | Night patrol | Urban fortifications | Thermal imaging | Donated drones
Eurafrique

Eurafrique

White fear | Postponed migration promises | Macron's civilisational trope | Michel's clumsy counting | Vaccine ideology | A guinea pig for clean energy | Carbon shocks | Debt solutions | Europe vs China | Lethal aid | Wagner Group | Brexit and the African Union
European Shibboleths

European Shibboleths

Mehreen Khan and a cast of shibboleths | Gildeadites and Ephraimites | Europe is diverse | Europe has been too naïve | Europe is green | Europe isn’t protectionist | Europe is humane to migrants | Europe has defeated populism | Defining separatism
Transparency, Interrupted

Transparency, Interrupted

Ursula von der Leyen's locked phone | Mass deletion of European Commission emails | Freedom of information and the Cold War | Sweden and 1766 | Regulation 1049 | Emily O'Reilly | Věra Jourová | Heidi Hautala | Reijo Kemppinen
Quick Take: Enrico Letta

Quick Take: Enrico Letta

Victim-shaming Italy and Spain | Making NextGenEU permanent | Global Progressive Forum | Flirting with Five Star | Technology and democracy | Fighting homophobia in Italy | Giorgia Meloni | A Schengen-model for shared migration policy
Book Club: The Scent of Wild Animals

Book Club: The Scent of Wild Animals

Unidentified governing object | Mark Rutte | Renew Europe's gender problem | Janša's antisemitic trolling | Wild animals and gladiator fights | GOP and EUCO | Jan 6 and Art 7 | Populists vs progressives | Caricatures of Eastern Europe | The supine Parliament | Che Guevara
The Climate Allies Europe Needs

The Climate Allies Europe Needs

European climate diplomacy after Brexit | Allying with the vulnerable | Keeping 1.5 alive at Glasgow | The shape of the room at COP | France after the Paris Agreement | Financing for clean energy | G20 and UN | Boris Johnson's science
Hedegaard on the Hazards of Stalling Climate Action

Hedegaard on the Hazards of Stalling Climate Action

Climate radicalisation | Legitimacy crisis | Energy prices | Don't blame the green transition | Disquiet over Glasgow | Bombshell in Copenhagen | Alliances in Durban | Threat multiplier | Climate refugees and populism | Denmark migration conversation
Book Club: The Last Bluff

Book Club: The Last Bluff

Alexis Tsipras's tears | Meeting Merkel | When debt doctors disagree | Jeroen Dijsselbloem's mucky shoes | Thomas Weiser's neat ironing | Poul Thomsen and failed states | A top secret Plan B | Yanis Varoufakis has a plan too | When the banks shut | Hiding whiskey from Hollande
A Hunger Strike at the Heart of Europe

A Hunger Strike at the Heart of Europe

What a hunger strike feels like | A humanitarian outcry in Belgium | Lilana Keith of PICUM | Albert Kraler of Danube University Krems | Obstacles facing Afghan migrants | Pull and push effects | Sammy Mahdi | Spanish regularisations and Germany's irritation | Fake news | Documenting the undocumented