Jean-Claude Juncker

Will Hungary be outbreak's first casualty? 'Hello, dictator!" said Jean-Claude Juncker cheerily to Hungary's leader, Victor Orban, at a European Union summit meeting a couple of years ago. The president of the European Commission was only joking, of course, but it was gallows humour. Dictatorship was clearly where Mr Orban…

By Nevena Bogdanovic, Andy Heil April 02, 2020 BELGRADE -- Influential former UN and European envoy to the Balkans Carl Bildt has unloaded a torrent of concern over Serbian political signals amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a far-ranging interview with RFE/RL's Balkan Service on March 30, the former Swedish foreign…

BELGRADE -- Influential former UN and European envoy to the Balkans Carl Bildt has unloaded a torrent of concern over Serbian political signals amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a far-ranging interview with RFE/RL's Balkan Service on March 30, the former Swedish foreign minister acknowledged European failures in the face of…

A moment of global crisis is an occasion to look anew at some old problems. As it happens, Abkhazia, which is the center of an exhausting three-decades-old conflict, has elected a new leader. It is a moment to think about a reset. Abkhazia is the small Black Sea territory that…

He takes near-dictatorial powers, while the EU does nothingLIKE A BOND villain, Viktor Orban cannot resist revealing his plans. The Hungarian prime minister has never hidden his desire to entrench himself in power. Before taking office in 2010, he remarked ominously: “We have only to win once, but then properly.”…

Right this second, a seasoned Hollywood writer is videoconferencing with studio bigwigs about a movie in which a disgruntled scientist escapes both the lockdown and the authorities, and develops a vaccine that cures the coronavirus (while also winning back the respect of his teenage kids, who haven't talked to him…

He takes near-dictatorial powers, while the EU does nothingLIKE A BOND villain, Viktor Orban cannot resist revealing his plans. The Hungarian prime minister has never hidden his desire to entrench himself in power. Before taking office in 2010, he remarked ominously: “We have only to win once, but then properly.”…

Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, Jenny Harries gives a daily update on the government's ... response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, inside 10 Downing Street in London on March 29, 2020. (Photo by PIPPA FOWLES/10 Downing Street/AFP via Getty Images) 10 Downing Street/AFP via Getty Images Strong leadership…

By A.J. Katz on Mar. 26, 2020 - 7:31 PMComment President Trump’s disdain for CNN came through again today. This time, it was Kaitlan Collins, and not Jim Acosta, who the president gave the cold shoulder to. Collins, seated in the front row, tried to ask multiple questions at today’s briefing.…

Without the transatlantic relationship, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger once said, Europe would be at the mercy of China, a mere “appendage” of Eurasia. This bleak notion is weighing heavily on the minds of German officials as they contemplate their country’s place in a world of escalating U.S.-China…