The Globalist

The Brexit virus refuses to cross the Channel.

Belarus is on a path of national rebirth that is increasingly incompatible with Putin’s pan-Slavic expansionism.

The ways in which the EU can put pressure on a UK that is going rogue are very limited — and potentially vast at the same time.

Boris Johnson’s latest Brexit moves give the Scottish independence movement a fresh impulse.

In its negotiations with the EU, the UK government still puts false hopes on “heavenly” intervention by Germany’s Angela Merkel.

A political decision principally made by the prime minister alone will determine what sort of exit from the EU we start 2021 with.

The West should support democracy in Belarus, but avoid provocative promises.

How Angela Merkel could effectively operate at the just-concluded European Summit on the basis of a well-hedged position.

Turkey’s president, desperate to boost his popularity at home, further damages his country’s international standing.

Imagine it is 1970 — and still there is no peace or reconciliation between France and Germany. Fast forward to the present and consider the situation in the West Balkans.