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  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Shadowlands of empire: central Europe’s nervous east-west gaze

    Putin’s war on Ukraine exposes not only a rift between Russia and the west, but also divisions within eastern Europe

  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    French politics
    Democracies can’t take too much drama

    In an ideal world, electoral politics should cool passions, not inflame them

  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    For many outside the west, Russia is not important enough to hate

    Indifference to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine has left western analysts flummoxed

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    World elections will shape the outcome of the war in Ukraine

    US, Russian and Ukrainian presidential contests in 2024 could be as important as events on the battlefield

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    Geopolitics
    Middle Powers are reshaping geopolitics

    Regionally strong countries such as Turkey share a determination to be at the table rather than on the menu

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    Russian politics
    Ukraine’s counter-offensive has left Putin encircled at home

    Kyiv’s military successes have forced the Russian president into making choices he wished to avoid

  • Monday, 1 August, 2022
    European Union
    The EU is losing control of events on its conflict-ridden periphery

    Failure is most evident in the Balkans, ill-suited to political models devised in western Europe

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin’s aggressive autocracy reduces Russian soft power to ashes

    The assault on Ukraine is causing a sharp cultural break with the west that may last far into the future

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Geopolitics
    To isolate Russia is not in the west’s power or interest

    Treating the entire country as a geopolitical Chernobyl would be a strategic blunder

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    Russian politics
    The west cannot turn its back on ordinary Russians

    It would be a historic mistake to assume that autocracy is destiny in Moscow

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    EU immigration
    Europe is terrified of its attractiveness to outsiders

    The Belarus border crisis shows that the EU’s biggest fear is the return of anti-migrant rightwing populism

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Populism
    Central European populists feel the effect of Trump’s defeat

    Not only do Poland and Hungary lose an ally but for them, Joe Biden’s US is a threat

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Life after Covid-19: What are we going to do now?

    The Pope, Ivan Krastev and Fareed Zakaria on processing the pandemic

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Populism
    Donald Trump’s defeat would deal a blow to European populism

    Victory for Joe Biden in November would empower liberals in former Habsburg lands

  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
    Coronavirus
    Copycat coronavirus policies will soon come to an end

    As countries consider how and when to lift lockdowns, a variety of approaches will show policy health

  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    Demographics and population
    Depopulation is eastern Europe’s biggest problem

    There is a connection between the twin crises of democracy and demography

  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
    European companies
    Orban’s vision of a new Europe will struggle to succeed

    Hungarian PM is preoccupied with battling Brussels as country’s citizens lose faith

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
    EU enlargement
    EU goes back to the future in the Balkans

    Russia and Turkey are united in their efforts to reduce the bloc’s influence

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2016
    Brexit
    Pessimists hold the key to Europe’s future

    Most in the Visegrad states are positive about the EU but worry about its survival, writes Ivan Krastev

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
    EU immigration
    Fear and loathing of a world without borders

    In Europe there is anxiety that foreigners will compromise traditions, writes Ivan Krastev

  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2014
    The World blogEuropean banks
    Smart Reads March 5, 2014
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2013
    Global InsightEU economy
    East’s ‘transition backlash’ alerts core EU

    Troubles in Bulgaria and elsewhere go behind anti-austerity protests

  • Thursday, 28 June, 2012
    Philip Stephens
    Soviet collapse holds a lesson for the euro

    Faith in currency’s survival offers an increasingly threadbare shield against gathering storms

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2012
    Philip Stephens
    A Hungarian coup worthy of Putin

    The troubles of Europe’s small powers can be a harbinger of bigger dangers around the corner

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2010
    World
    We need new rules for a multipolar Europe

    Russia, Turkey and the EU want ‘neighbourhood policies’, write Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard

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