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  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Geopolitics
    To isolate Russia is not in the west’s power or interest

    Treating the entire country as a geopolitical Chernobyl would be a strategic blunder

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    Russian politics
    The west cannot turn its back on ordinary Russians

    It would be a historic mistake to assume that autocracy is destiny in Moscow

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    EU immigration
    Europe is terrified of its attractiveness to outsiders

    The Belarus border crisis shows that the EU’s biggest fear is the return of anti-migrant rightwing populism

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Populism
    Central European populists feel the effect of Trump’s defeat

    Not only do Poland and Hungary lose an ally but for them, Joe Biden’s US is a threat

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Life after Covid-19: What are we going to do now?

    The Pope, Ivan Krastev and Fareed Zakaria on processing the pandemic

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Populism
    Donald Trump’s defeat would deal a blow to European populism

    Victory for Joe Biden in November would empower liberals in former Habsburg lands

  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Copycat coronavirus policies will soon come to an end

    As countries consider how and when to lift lockdowns, a variety of approaches will show policy health

  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    Demographics and population
    Depopulation is eastern Europe’s biggest problem

    There is a connection between the twin crises of democracy and demography

  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
    European companies
    Orban’s vision of a new Europe will struggle to succeed

    Hungarian PM is preoccupied with battling Brussels as country’s citizens lose faith

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
    EU enlargement
    EU goes back to the future in the Balkans

    Russia and Turkey are united in their efforts to reduce the bloc’s influence

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2016
    Brexit
    Pessimists hold the key to Europe’s future

    Most in the Visegrad states are positive about the EU but worry about its survival, writes Ivan Krastev

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
    EU immigration
    Fear and loathing of a world without borders

    In Europe there is anxiety that foreigners will compromise traditions, writes Ivan Krastev

  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2014
    The World blogEuropean banks
    Smart Reads March 5, 2014
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2013
    Global InsightEU economy
    East’s ‘transition backlash’ alerts core EU

    Troubles in Bulgaria and elsewhere go behind anti-austerity protests

  • Thursday, 28 June, 2012
    Philip Stephens
    Soviet collapse holds a lesson for the euro

    Faith in currency’s survival offers an increasingly threadbare shield against gathering storms

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2012
    Philip Stephens
    A Hungarian coup worthy of Putin

    The troubles of Europe’s small powers can be a harbinger of bigger dangers around the corner

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2010
    World
    We need new rules for a multipolar Europe

    Russia, Turkey and the EU want ‘neighbourhood policies’, write Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard

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