Tag: Europe

With few restrictions and no tracing of the disease’s spread, the government is relying upon Swedish character and traditions to see it through the pandemic.

Germany’s official policy of shame about its past is a model the United States should adopt. But it won’t protect either country from far-right extremism.

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

Thirty years after the Wall fell, the story of Berlin's anarchist utopia.

Far-right leaders often call for one nation united under one language. They have also always been good at using translation to spread their politics.

The political philosophy embraced by Germany’s leading party helped reunite Europe after World War II. Can it guide us safely away from today’s populism—or did it cause it?

Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings—frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.

But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.

The focus on Muslim anti-Semitism obscures the real quandary of multiculturalism in Angela Merkel’s Germany.

To understand why Europe seems more balkanized now than ever, we must look to Eastern Europe's failed reconstruction.

Yanis Varoufakis's lessons for reasserting European social democracy.

Could Germany's left-wing parties unseat Angela Merkel in Sunday's election? Only if they bury the hatchet.

The very forces that sustain populist politics could eventually undermine populism.

Can Angela Merkel circumvent Trump to build a multipolar alliance on climate change?

It has not been an easy path from Blairite centrism to radical socialist hope.

Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

Prominent Hungarian intellectuals have taken surprising anti-immigrant stances.

Spain struggles to honor the legacy of Cervantes.