The Master of Reinvention
Despite a shambolic handling of the coronavirus crisis, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has largely maintained his popularity.
Not for Turning
The COVID-19-induced economic carnage provides Boris Johnson with a cover for a hard Brexit.
Wanted: A British Model
Negotiating the future relationship with Britain is going to be difficult for the EU. Time pressure is acute, interests diverge, and the UK’s Brexiteers …
“The EU Is Not Big Enough to Shift the World”
The economist MARTIN WOLF thinks Europe has no chance of gaining real strategic autonomy.
For the EU, the Sun Also Rises
An EU free from British membership will mean new challenges, but also new opportunities.
Europe by Numbers: A Very British Election
By winning 365 of the 650 parliamentary seats, Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have changed Britain’s political landscape for the next five years, possibly for the …
Brexit’s Point of No Return
Brexit won’t be “done” any time soon, neither for the UK nor for the EU.
Close-Up: Phil Hogan
Known as a tough negotiator, the EU’s future trade commissioner is used to being unpopular.
The Worst Is Yet to Come
So far, Britain and the EU have only talked about exit modalities. Negotiating their future relationship will be even more difficult.
An EU Delayed
On November 1, the UK was supposed to have left the EU, and Ursula von der Leyen was supposed to start her job as Commission President. Neither will happen.
Two Member States Don’t Enter, One Leaves?
Boris Johnson has traded a hypothetical, temporary, all-UK backstop for a certain, permanent one for Northern Ireland only. Meanwhile, France is blocking accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania.
The Johnson Maneuver
Boris Johnson appears to have painted the United Kingdom—and himself—into a corner. A no-deal Brexit and an election loom.
Close-Up: Nicola Sturgeon
As Brexit looms, Scotland’s first minister may have another opportunity to make the case for leaving the United Kingdom.
Britain is the New Greece
Talk of moral hazard and contagion are back at EU emergency summits. Sound familiar?
Bleak Prospects
Can Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn agree on a compromise to break the parliamentary deadlock? Unlikely.
