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.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond column. A few weeks ago, when Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen spoke with soon-to-be U.S. President Donald Trump about his insistence on…
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.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond column. Dina Smeltz is vice president for Public Opinion and Foreign Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. For the past…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
BRUSSELS — Cash is king in the EU’s plan to stop migrants from coming to Europe. On Sunday, the EU finalized a deal with Tunisia — a common departure point for people seeking asylum in Europe — that essentially offers the country millions in exchange for help blocking the boats that have been carrying a growing number…
PARIS – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has vowed Wagner’s operations in Mali and the Central African Republic “will continue” despite the failed rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the mercenary Wagner Group. The paramilitary group has expanded its reach across Latin America, the Middle East and Africa in recent years and it has been…
When the U.S. president on Tuesday announced that he would seek reelection in 2024, attention quickly turned to his advanced age. If elected, Joe Biden would be 82 on inauguration day in 2025, and 86 on leaving the White House in January 2029. POLITICO took a look around the globe and back through history to meet…