Section: POLITICO – Europe Edition (EU)
Why I fled multiculturalism
KIEV — I was born in India to an American mother and Indian father and moved to the United States after high school to study at New York’s Columbia University. Having an American passport from birth, speaking English at home in Hyderabad, and visiting my grandparents in Pennsylvania over the summers, I considered myself an American — or a...
Europeans should brace for a post-American world
I remember spending a fair portion of the 2000s, during the presidency of George W. Bush, fighting the casual anti-Americanism that existed in Europe at the time. I used to explain to my friends on the old continent that Republicans were not the dumb party. Their commitment to a hawkish foreign policy, including two controversial wars in...
Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet killed in Kiev
Pavel Sheremet, a well-known Belarusian journalist who had spent the past five years in Ukraine, was killed when the car he was driving exploded in central Kiev Wednesday morning. An official with Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, Anton Gerashchenko, said in a statement on Facebook that the explosion was caused by a “car bomb.” He said the...
A fleeting triumph for Crimean Tatars
The rest of the world has forgotten the event. But for the Crimean Tatars being forgotten is nothing new. When singer Jamala, won the Eurovision contest in May, defeating a Russian singer, with a song titled “1944,” the celebrations in her homeland were painfully subdued. As they sat in their kitchens (which throughout the former Soviet Union...
New chess game between NATO and Russia
The big topic of discussion at NATO’s biannual summit in Warsaw Friday and Saturday is how the Alliance ought to respond to a newly aggressive Russia. Another way to put it: A2AD, that “terrible acronym,” in the words of Douglas Lute, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. A2AD stands for Anti-Access Area Denial, and this military jargon captures the...
NATO should not abandon Georgia
The U.K.’s referendum to leave the European Union sent political shockwaves across Europe and has cast a shadow of uncertainty on the future of the European project. But the Continent’s lack of strategic vision could have especially dangerous consequences for those still seeking to join its ranks — and for Georgia especially. Georgia...
John Kerry in Ukraine ahead of NATO summit
Secretary of State John Kerry was in Ukraine on Thursday to reassure the country’s leaders of United States’ support in the territorial dispute with Russia. Kerry was in Kiev ahead of the NATO summit in Warsaw, according the an AP report. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine as well as the overall situation on NATO’s...
‘We believe in Europe’
These aren’t the easiest days for a united Europe. Both Eastern and Western Europe are suffering from Brexit fever. The destiny of those who want to be out has been decided — just like the destiny of those who want be in. But it is not a time for despair. It is a time for unity, responsibility and vision. A time to understand how we got to...
Ukraine’s PM: ‘We will join EU within 10 years’
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said on Friday that he is convinced his country will join the European Union within the next decade. Groysman, who took office last April, told German newspapers of the Funke media group that Ukraine sees its future in the West, despite the ongoing conflict in the country’s east. “We are...
The eastern weakness for a ‘political savior’
KIEV, Ukraine — When Nadiya Savchenko, Putin’s most famous political prisoner, stepped foot on Ukrainian soil for the first time in two years, she was overwhelmed by the media frenzy. “Back off!” she snapped at the horde of reporters circling her like prey, just minutes after she landed at Kiev airport. The country is hungry for its next...
