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  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Niger
    The Niger coup’s lessons for the US and France

    Two powers tread carefully, for fear they will drive the sub-Saharan state into Russian arms

    Supporters of Niger’s National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland hold national flags as they gather in Niamey on August 20
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    European Union
    Failure is not an option when it comes to EU enlargement

    Ukraine must be accommodated but expanding membership of the bloc will not be easy

    Volodymyr Zelensky appears on a big screen above rows of delegates as he addresses the summit
  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    EU foreign policy
    Europe is feeling its way towards a new relationship with China

    In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, geopolitical realities are clashing with economic interests

  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    French politics
    Emmanuel Macron must reset France’s Africa policy

    The old colonial power faces competition for influence on the continent, notably from China and Russia

    Emmanuel Macron in Cotonou, Benin, in 2022. The president is embarking this week on his 18th trip to Africa as president of France
  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    Emmanuel Macron
    Hyperactive abroad, Emmanuel Macron is struggling at home

    The French president is once more running into problems over pension reform

    Emmanuel Macron faces an even more pessimistic country, which denied him a parliamentary majority barely two months after re-electing him
  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    Poland
    Now could be Poland’s moment — but it needs to play by the rules

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given the country an opportunity, if it can only let go of its old hostilities

    An middle-aged woman and a young boy sit on a bench on a train station platform
  • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
    Brexit
    A wary Europe greets Sunak’s premiership with relief

    An end to British political chaos is welcome but the UK’s EU allies are still dismayed by the fallout from Brexit

    French president Emmanuel Macron and former UK prime minister Liz Truss in Prague earlier this month
  • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
    European Union
    War in Ukraine has shaken the EU’s power dynamics

    The Baltic states have seen their suspicion of Moscow vindicated and are newly assertive

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Latvian President Egils Levits and Estonian President Alar Karis
  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    German politics
    Germany is struggling to give shape to a new foreign policy

    Critics complain that Chancellor Olaf Scholz cannot say what the much-vaunted ‘turning point’ really amounts to

    Olaf Scholz delivers a speech on the Russian invasion of the Ukraine during a meeting of the Bundestag in February in Berlin
  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    The west is divided over how the war in Ukraine must end

    Leaders are at odds over the question of just how crushing a Russian defeat should be

    Nato heads of state take a video call from Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, during a summit at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels in March 2022
  • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
    French presidential election
    Putin’s long shadow hangs over an unpredictable French election

    Le Pen closes in on Macron as the cost of living crisis trumps Ukraine in voters’ priorities

    Ewan White illustration of Sylvie Kauffmann story ‘Putin’s long shadow hangs over an unpredictable French election’
  • Sunday, 6 March, 2022
    European Union
    A new Europe is emerging from the tragedy of Ukraine

    The war has prompted urgent EU membership applications from countries seeking sanctuary from Russian aggression

    Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky addresses members of the European Parliament via video conference on March 1
  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    Emmanuel Macron
    Can Macron be trusted when it comes to Russia?

    The French leader faces suspicions around complacency towards Putin and his taste for an independent foreign policy

    Emmanuel Macron greets Vladimir Putin
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