The fact that a routine diplomatic meeting unraveled into an event that reshaped the global order shocked many but has ...

A German court has jailed five members of a far-right extremist group for plotting a coup and planning to kidnap the ...

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Russia has said that it views as a "threat" comments by French President Emmanuel Macron about extending his country's ...

Engineering Zelensky’s ouster to secure a U.S.-designed peace deal could backfire.

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H itler regretted the deal he made with Neville Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. What he actually wanted was war—his goal was ...

Every day, Europe feels the negative effects of immigration from outside the EU—ranging from integration difficulties and ...

This is not the first time of course that the domino theory has been applied to Russia. Many of us will remember how North Vietnam was portrayed as a 'Communist' stooge – a Soviet Union proxy – and ...

In 2014, after Vla­dimir Putin invaded and annexed Crimea, I described him as “an existential threat to civilisation and an ...