What Europe wants from Biden’s State of the Union

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LONDON — For­eign pol­i­cy nev­er wins elec­tions, as the old polit­i­cal max­im goes. So eight months out from polling day in Amer­i­ca, it’s hard­ly sur­pris­ing that domes­tic reac­tion to Thursday’s State of the Union speech will be dom­i­nat­ed by argu­ments over the econ­o­my, drug prices and the frailty of U.S. Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, 82 this November.…

Macron: The grand master of grandstanding

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Ivo Daalder, for­mer U.S. ambas­sador to NATO, is CEO of the Chica­go Coun­cil on Glob­al Affairs and host of the week­ly pod­cast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” There he goes again, anoth­er head­­­line-grab­bing state­ment from French Pres­i­dent Emmanuel Macron. “Noth­ing should be ruled out,” he said last week , respond­ing to a ques­tion about whether…

A federalized Europe isn’t in America’s interest

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Andrew A. Mich­ta is senior fel­low and direc­tor of the Scow­croft Strat­e­gy Ini­tia­tive at the Atlantic Coun­cil of the Unit­ed States. Views expressed here are his own. There’s a sea change com­ing to Europe, and its con­se­quences for America’s rela­tions with key allies haven’t yet reg­is­tered in Wash­ing­ton. Pre­dom­i­nant­ly dri­ven by pres­sure from Berlin and Paris,…

The rise and fall of geopolitical Europe

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Nathalie Toc­ci is direc­tor of the Isti­tu­to Affari Inter­nazion­ali, a part-time pro­fes­sor at the Euro­pean Uni­ver­si­ty Insti­tute and a Europe’s Futures fel­low at the Insti­tute for Human Sci­ences. Her lat­est book, “A Green and Glob­al Europe,” is out with Poli­ty. As the Euro­pean Union’s lead­er­ship enters its last lap, with the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment elec­tions scheduled…