European Union

Europe’s top economies are trying to take on China and the United States by resurrecting industrial policy. Brussels is not happy.

Brussels’ sprawling, confusing architecture matches the institution it houses.

With support for Brexit eroding, EU leaders hope the long postponement will kill the plan for good.

Seven years on, the 16+1 project has largely flopped.

Seumas Milne loves the Soviet Union, hates the EU, and has the ear of a possible future prime minister.

Trump is mulling new auto tariffs that could send the global economy into a tailspin.

Even if Britain’s opposing parties agree on a plan to leave the EU, national unity will be nowhere in sight.

A Remain Parliament is confronting a Brexit electorate—and none of the solutions on offer is likely to resolve the stalemate anytime soon.

Leavers say a revote would be undemocratic, but polls now put them in the minority.

A political newcomer is poised to become president by standing up for liberal democratic values—and seeking to halt the spread of right-wing populism across Central and Eastern Europe.

Thierry Baudet once called politicians brain-dead. Now his upstart white nationalist movement has eclipsed Geert Wilders and won more Senate seats than the prime minister’s party.

Brexiteers wanted the United Kingdom to control its own destiny. They got the opposite.

If Britain remains in the European Union due to a botched Brexit, its demands for special treatment will end up wrecking the EU.

First he came for Georgia, then for Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s next target is likely to be a non-NATO nation in the EU.

Many fear a go-it-alone future outside the EU portends economic eclipse.

If nationalists keep the momentum in the run-up to the European Parliament elections, the EU will never be the same again.

The British prime minister wins minor concessions in an 11th-hour effort to save Brexit—and her premiership.

Austria’s young chancellor has become a major player in Europe. The White House has taken notice.

The latest issue to divide the EU is whether to recognize the legitimacy of Syria’s dictator and help him rebuild his country.

The EU has committed to outsourcing its dirty work to authoritarians in the Middle East and Africa—and to confusing dependence for maturity.