Columns for Newsroom, the New Zealand news site, since 2018.
When the European Central Bank raised interest rates on June 11, its first increase since 2023, the news was unwelcome across the eurozone.
When I read last week that the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had published a 5600-word essay on everything that ails Britain, every instinct told me not to read it.
Observers of European politics know Alternative for Germany as a right-wing populist party, probably extreme and certainly friendly to Russia.
Russian power has always sat on a contradiction.
Dealing with hostile political leaders is nothing new for the Catholic church.
A few years ago, I found an old calendar from 1979 in a box of things from my childhood.
I was born in West Germany in 1975.
While American and Israeli jets were bombing Tehran last Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron stood before nuclear submarines at the Île Longue naval base in Brittany.
European integration has always been a tug of war.
Hungary is a landlocked nation of 10 million people with an economy smaller than New Zealand’s.
© Dr Oliver Hartwich