Caroline de Gruyter is a columnist at Foreign Policy and a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. She currently lives in Brussels.
Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, wearing wire-frame glasses, a suit jacket, and open-collared button-up shirt with no tie, furrows his brow as he looks to his right.
An Muslim imam, a Christian priest and two Jewish rabbis join a prayer calling for rain on November 11, 2010 in the West Bank village of Walajeh near Bethlehem.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech during the last campaign event of his Fidesz party in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on April 6, 2018.
Leader of Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders during a meeting of populist far-right party leaders in Wenceslas Square on April 25, 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen looks at a programmable humanoid robot during a visit to the AI Xperience Center in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2020.
A woman with a European flag painted on her face stands outside the European Parliament durng an event for the announcement of European parliametary elections results in Brussels on May 26, 2019.
German troops, one of whom (left) is carrying a Heckler and Koch G36 rifle, look on as German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen speaks to the media while attending the NATO Noble Jump military exercises in Zagan, Poland.
A photo taken on October 21, 2020 shows the logos of Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, and Instragram on a computer screen in Lille, France.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron wave as they visit the landmark Brandenburg Gate illuminated in the colors of the Ukrainian flag in Berlin on May 9, 2022.
Russian Sukhoi Su-25 jets release smoke in the colours of the Russian flag while flying over Red Square during the general rehearsal of the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 7, 2022.
