European Union (E.U.)

Something is afoot in this tournament, a spectacle that has been explosively enjoyable and peppered with surprises.

The former British Prime Minister discusses the difficulties of international coöperation at a time of rising demagoguery, the future of center-left politics, and why Downing Street is a very bad place for social distancing.

Until recently, it was possible to believe that there was a middle way, or to be in denial that a decisive moment would come. That’s no longer the case.

Almost everything Johnson has done this week has made a potential no-deal Brexit more likely and more damaging.

The myth contends that it is not the prospect of leaving the E.U. that is damaging the U.K.’s standing in the world; it is merely the way that the enterprise has been conducted so far.

A John le Carré spy novel explains the destructive dynamics behind Britain’s self-defeating attempts to leave the E.U.

The unsettled mood after the European Parliamentary elections makes this a dangerous moment, but also a potentially promising one.

The European parliamentarian has exploited a national feeling of resentment and complaint to further advance his divisive brand of political entrepreneurship.

The mismatch between the older generations that voted for Britain’s departure and the younger generations that will have to bear the consequences is unsettling.

Sam Knight joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what the Brexit emergency reveals about the political chaos inside the U.K. and across Europe.

Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled a deal for Britain’s withdrawal from the E.U. It didn’t go well.

By creating a single currency without the institutions to sustain it, the E.U. wound up with low growth, high unemployment, and popular disaffection.

The U.K. and Europe will find economic needs clashing with political ones.