Political gymnastics don’t bode well for the European Union to unite around goals like unified banking, capital markets, and ...

Europe never recovered from its postwar calamity. Trump is trying to make them do so.

The trajectory of European politics in 2024 frequently generated the appearance of progress without achieving much concrete change. Whether elections resulted in parliamentary deadlock, as in France, ...

The continent’s problems are not caused by immigration or cultural politics but by economic and technological decline ...

While melancholy Europe frets that the US and China will shape the future, middle powers are jostling for a place at the big ...

EU rules help strengthen requirements relating to financing and transparency for European political parties and foundations and limit the risk of foreign interference. On this page What are European ...

Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Liana Fix is a fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. Sophia Winograd is an intern for CFR’s Europe Program ...

Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: ...

Then-Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, April 18, 2024 (AP photo by Harry Nakos). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) ...

On Feb. 23, Germans will vote in their national elections. Some recent polls indicate that the governing centrist and center-left parties could suffer major defeats, with the conservative Christian ...