Articles by: "Jan-Werner Mueller"
Is Europe broken?

Last week, in a major political victory for embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the European Council decided to open accession talks with his country. According to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, it was …

Merkel’s last chance

This week’s meeting of the European Council has rightly been called a ‘doomsday summit’. It is overshadowed not just by a ghastly winter wave of Covid-19 infections and the prospect of a chaotic no-deal Brexit, …