https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Trump-guilty-verdict-press-conference-GettyImages-2155441912.jpgThe Trump verdict is the latest prompt for deploying a meaningless comparison. All that does is reflect poorly on the United States.
David Miliband is the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. Any political consultant will tell you that all politics is local. However, this year’s European election will test that proposition. Indeed, there’s plenty of local dissent against governing parties, but from Gaza to Ukraine and migration to food and energy prices, it’s a…
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.…
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Trump-NATO-Munich-Security-Conference-GettyImages-1186241816.jpgDoubts on Ukraine and growing alarm about a second Trump term are likely to dominate the agenda.
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…
https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000–0aff-0242–06e3-08db4191edaa_tv_w800_h450.jpgFrance is trying to limit the diplomatic fallout after President Emmanuel Macron said Europe should reduce its dependence on the U.S. and avoid “getting caught up in crises that are not ours,” following a state visit to China earlier this month. Critics said Macron’s remarks undermined the transatlantic relationship at a time of dangerous geopolitical tensions.…
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/af163a3ee9b376deab01d1bdf8fae4bff5b23677/0_116_6907_4144/master/6907.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fef3eedd651d370c7a935687b522dd04FBI chief’s endorsement of Covid lab leak theory highlights the tussle between hawks and doves within the administration The FBI chief, Chris Wray, has endorsed the theory that the Covid pandemic was the result of a laboratory leak in China, further sharpening an increasingly combative bilateral relationship. In making his intervention, Wray, who was appointed…
https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000–0aff-0242–9ce4-08db1435658f_w800_h450.jpgJill Biden left Tuesday for her first visit to Africa as U.S. first lady, with plans to stop in Namibia and Kenya, the White House said. Biden will focus on women’s empowerment, children’s issues and food insecurity that has ravaged parts of the continent. She will be the first White House official to visit Africa this…
BERLIN — News this month that the number of German soldiers declaring themselves conscientious objectors rose fivefold in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine created little more than a ripple in Germany. For many Germans it’s perfectly natural for members of the Bundeswehr, the army, to renege on the pledge they made to…
Europe is waking up to a troubling reality: It may soon lose its NATO benefactor in Ukraine. With conservatives poised to make gains in the upcoming U.S. elections, NATO’s most generous donor to Ukraine’s war effort may suddenly seem much more parsimonious in 2023. The possibility has put the spotlight on the gap between American and…