There will be no Nexit under Wilders, but he will oppose the most important things the EU does.

We should start to prepare for disappointment - our geopolitical conflicts do not look like they will end in glorious victory.

A Spanish amnesty law for Catalan independence leaders is turning into a nightmare for the EU

Bidenomics is the antithesis to Clintonomics - on macroeconomic policy, on trade policy, and on regulation. Don't try it at home.

The west's assertive foreign policy agenda is reaching its limits.

The former co-leader of the Left Party offers an entirely new deal - a social policy of the left, with themes of the right.

The war in the Middle East has divided Europeans - but not for the obvious reason

Old German divisions resurface as the country shifts away from Russia and reliance on heavy industries.

Europe's centre-right has discover a new way back to power

The worst way to deal with populists is to demonise them and to isolate them. This is how political centrism will die.

Twenty years ago, economists were the stars of public policy. That is no longer so.

The confrontation between Finland and Russia during World War II offers a glimpse of how the Ukraine war might end.

Without fundamental reform to the way the EU works, Ukraine cannot become a member

If the EU sticks to its fiscal rules, it won't have enough money for its geopolitical ambitions. www.eurointelligence.com

How wishful thinking is dominating western commentary about Russia and Ukraine

In politics interests should determine our relationships, not the other way round. This is especially true for the EU-UK and the transatlantic relationships.

Germany's recession is not your run-of-the-mill economic downturn.

Never have the Greens been more powerful. Now the backlash starts in earnest.

Industries that have left, won't easily come up. The west's strategy of re-industrialisation is unlikely to work.

With inflation - as with Brexit - policy advocacy of the left no longer works for the constituency of the left