Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East…
Read more Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next?Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán regularly pushes the EU to the cliff edge, but diplomats are panicking…
Read more Putin’s buddy Orbán pushes EU to the brink over UkrainePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe couldn’t be more pleased. For…
Read more Germany chokes on its own austerity medicinePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. At least Europe no longer has to endure that hackneyed Henry Kissinger quip about whom to call…
Read more Europe’s power outage: How Israel-Hamas war exposed EU’s irrelevanceWARSAW — Poland’s opposition held an enormous rally in Warsaw and other cities on Sunday — claiming more than a million people took part — but the mood…
Read more Huge but glum: Poland’s opposition puts a million people on the streetsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — The political maneuver shaking Germany’s postwar democratic order involves a piece of legislation that is…
Read more Germany’s far-right ‘firewall’ cracksThe German government has splashed out almost €55,000 on former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hair and makeup since she left office in 2021. Despite departing Germany’s top job…
Read more Germany has spent €55K on Merkel’s hair and makeup since she left officeBRUSSELS — Just when you thought Europe’s China policy could not be more disunited, the two most powerful countries of the European Union are now also at odds over whether…
Read more Europe’s disunity over China deepensPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Chinese leader Xi Jinping had one overriding message for his visiting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron this week:…
Read more Why China wants Macron to drive a wedge between Europe and AmericaPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Germany’s Christian Democrats, the country’s largest opposition group, are planning to shift away from the…
Read more German Christian Democrats rewrite Merkel’s China playbookPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Western Europe last week to drum up support for his…
Read more Theater or Zelenskyy? How Macron keeps failing to lead European response to Ukraine warPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — This year, the number of refugees arriving to Germany is almost as high as it was in 2015 and…
Read more 3 ways Germany’s migration crisis is different this time aroundPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — When French President Emmanuel Macron’s party lost its absolute majority in parliament six months ago,…
Read more Unloved at home, Emmanuel Macron wants to get ‘intimate’ with the worldPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — On a balmy September evening last year, an Azeri man carrying a Russian passport crossed…
Read more License to kill: How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murderFormer German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she no longer saw any possibility of influencing Russian President Vladimir Putin toward the end of her term in office. In…
Read more Merkel: There was nothing I could do about PutinBEIJING — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Beijing on Friday for a one-day visit that has drawn criticism over China’s tacit support for Russia in its war…
Read more Germany’s Scholz in China amid trade, Ukraine, rights issuesPress play to listen to this article BERLIN — Berlin must change the way it deals with China as the country lurches back toward a more openly “Marxist-Leninist”…
Read more Germany’s Scholz: The way we deal with China must changeBERLIN/PARIS — Relations are now so icy between Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, the leaders of the EU’s two economic powerhouses, that they are even struggling to agree…
Read more The awkward lunch: Macron prepares to snub Scholz in Paris
