Editorials

We knew that America’s attention had turned to China, which is challenging its primacy, but we did not realise that the Trump administration hated Europe to such an extent. Claims over Greenland, insults, provocations, discriminatory tariffs, abandoning Ukraine, support for Eurosceptics, a...

The resounding and unequivocal rejection of Viktor Orbán on Sunday extends far beyond Hungary’s borders. An ‘illiberal’ regime has been defeated, but with it has also gone a Eurosceptic narrative masked by a veneer of patriotism. One cannot reap the long-term benefits of...

Marco Rubio, formerly a senator and a man of reason, once pushed through a law in the US Congress obliging any president wishing to withdraw from NATO to secure the support of at least two-thirds of the Senate. Suffice to say, that is not about to happen. Nevertheless, the US president is stepping...

Emmanuel Macron's speech marks a major shift in French nuclear doctrine in the interests of enhanced European security. The fundamentals of France's robust, effective and independent deterrent have been the subject of broad national consensus since the 1950s, as demonstrated by political responses...