In a major shift that could reverberate across Europe’s security landscape, Poland is poised to lay anti-personnel mines along its eastern border within 48 hours of formally exiting the Ottawa Convention, the international treaty that for nearly three dec... See more
The morning mist still clung to the trees of Sandringham when the first unmarked cars turned quietly onto the estate’s narrow lanes. For decades, such movements would have been interpreted as the discreet choreography of royal life — courtiers arriving, g... See more
By any measure, royal tours are exercises in symbolism. Yet some carry the faint chill of geopolitics with them, and King Frederik X’s arrival in Nuuk this week felt less like a courtesy visit and more like a constitutional statement delivered in snow boo... See more
For years, Europe’s political classes have comforted themselves with a simple story: the primary danger to public order comes from the far-Right. It is a reassuring narrative, neat enough for speeches and tidy enough for policy papers. Yet reality has beg... See more
There are disputes between allies, and then there are disputes that expose something deeper than politics. The extraordinary quarrel now unfolding between Belgium and the United States — provoked by a criminal investigation into Jewish ritual circumcision... See more
