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Ivan Krastev

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    Russian politics
    The west cannot turn its back on ordinary Russians

    It would be a historic mistake to assume that autocracy is destiny in Moscow

    Ewan White illustration of Ivan Krastev story ‘The west cannot turn its back on ordinary Russians’
  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    EU immigration
    Europe is terrified of its attractiveness to outsiders

    The Belarus border crisis shows that the EU’s biggest fear is the return of anti-migrant rightwing populism

    Ewan White illustration of Ivan Krastev story ‘Europe is terrified of its attractiveness to outsiders’
  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Populism
    Central European populists feel the effect of Trump’s defeat

    Not only do Poland and Hungary lose an ally but for them, Joe Biden’s US is a threat

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Life after Covid-19: What are we going to do now?

    The Pope, Ivan Krastev and Fareed Zakaria on processing the pandemic

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Populism
    Donald Trump’s defeat would deal a blow to European populism

    Victory for Joe Biden in November would empower liberals in former Habsburg lands

    An anti-government protester holds Hungarian and EU flags in Budapest. A Joe Biden victory in the US election would impel illiberal governments in Warsaw and Budapest to seek reconciliation with Brussels
  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
    Coronavirus
    Copycat coronavirus policies will soon come to an end

    As countries consider how and when to lift lockdowns, a variety of approaches will show policy health

    People gather at a restaurant n in Stockholm on April 4, 2020, during the the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    Demographics and population
    Depopulation is eastern Europe’s biggest problem

    There is a connection between the twin crises of democracy and demography

    People wait at the regional department of foreigners' affairs where foreigners can get work and residency permits in central Warsaw on April 26, 2018. - To keep its economy growing, Poland is banking on workers from abroad. (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Michel VIATTEAU (Photo credit should read JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
    European companies
    Orban’s vision of a new Europe will struggle to succeed

    Hungarian PM is preoccupied with battling Brussels as country’s citizens lose faith

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, 2nd right, arrives for a for a new group of border guards known locally as “border hunters,” in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Orban, an early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has ordered the reinforcement of fences on Hungary’s southern borders to keep out migrants. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
    EU enlargement
    EU goes back to the future in the Balkans

    Russia and Turkey are united in their efforts to reduce the bloc’s influence

    A young boy rides a bicycle, 16 july 1992, past the wrecks of several cars, destroyed in combat in Sarajevo. (Photo credit should read PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2016
    Brexit
    Pessimists hold the key to Europe’s future

    Most in the Visegrad states are positive about the EU but worry about its survival, writes Ivan Krastev

    Warsaw
  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
    EU immigration
    Fear and loathing of a world without borders

    In Europe there is anxiety that foreigners will compromise traditions, writes Ivan Krastev

    TOPSHOT - A mother holds her child as she arrives along with other migrants and refugees aboard a Greek coast guard boat to the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos on March 29, 2016, after being rescued by Frontext and Greek coast guards. The United States will provide an additional $20 million (18 million euros) in aid for refugees in Europe, a senior US official said on March 28, 2016. Most of the funds -- $17.5 million -- will be given to the UN refugee agency, Higginbottom said during a visit to Lesbos, the island that has experienced most of the refugee arrivals registered in Greece since 2015, where there are over 2000 refugees and migrants according to the Greek government. / AFP PHOTO / --/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2014
    The World blogEuropean banks
    Smart Reads March 5, 2014
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2013
    Global InsightEU economy
    East’s ‘transition backlash’ alerts core EU

    Troubles in Bulgaria and elsewhere go behind anti-austerity protests

  • Thursday, 28 June, 2012
    Philip Stephens
    Soviet collapse holds a lesson for the euro

    Faith in currency’s survival offers an increasingly threadbare shield against gathering storms

    Angela Merkel
  • Thursday, 5 January, 2012
    Philip Stephens
    A Hungarian coup worthy of Putin

    The troubles of Europe’s small powers can be a harbinger of bigger dangers around the corner

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2010
    World
    We need new rules for a multipolar Europe

    Russia, Turkey and the EU want ‘neighbourhood policies’, write Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard

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