Poland’s clash with Brussels looms over EU summit

It was all smiles as EU Values Commissioner Věra Jourová received a gift of Krówki, a special kind of Polish cream fudge, from Poland’s new European Affairs Minister Sekretarz Stanu at their first meeting in Luxembourg earlier this week. But it’s going to take more than a box of fudge to rebuild the increasingly acrimonious […]

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The fate of Osman Kavala matters

Başak Çalı and Philip Leach are representing Osman Kavala at the European Court of Human Rights. When war, geopolitics, energy squeezes and inflation take center stage on the Continent, is there a risk of human rights and rule of law being forgotten? In such a context, does the credibility of the European Court of Human […]

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Will the real Emmanuel Macron please stand up!

Will the real Emmanuel Macron please stand up!? Beset by populists at home and darkening economic clouds abroad, the French president is learning to embrace his country’s protectionist tradition. Clea Caulcuttand Sarah Anne Aarup Illustration by Pierre Buttin for POLITICO PARIS — When EU leaders gather to hash out a response to the energy crisis […]

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