President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people in an interview with POLITICO, belittling the traditional U.S. allies for failing to control migration and ...

Trump's NATO challenges push European defense spending pledges, but analysts say continent still lacks command experience to ...

Depends from where in the US. Some states have considerably higher tax rates than others. There’s little ambiguity in which way the higher tax states lean politically. I think the biggest culture ...

BRUSSELS – As Europe enters 2026, it feels disillusioned and threatened. Across the continent, populist right parties are rising and adopting a style of bombastic populism that echoes Donald Trump’s ...

The European Union faced history twice in the waning days of 2025. It went one for two, maybe 0.8 for two. Critics have been gleefully predicting the European project’s demise since it launched in ...

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their ...

Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: ...

To fix what he sees wrong in Europe, President Donald Trump has prescribed the continent’s ancient and most lethal poison — nationalism. Nationalism is a patriotism, a love of one’s own country, that ...

President Emmanuel Macron’s inability to find a government that can pass a new budget is hobbling his efforts to influence Europe’s agenda. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger, a former Paris bureau ...

Mr. Jäger is a contributing Opinion writer and a lecturer in politics at Oxford University. He wrote from Brussels. Among contemporary European writers, the novelist Michel Houellebecq is not known ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Kyiv is nearly ready to present a refined peace plan to the United States after days of talks with European partners, even as he maintains that ...