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Christian Lindner

Dutch, German Liberals Split on Climate, Sustainability

The Dutch center-right understand they can no longer cede climate policy to the left.

Nick OttensNick OttensJune 8, 2023July 29, 2023
Charles de Gaulle

Three Political Traditions Explain the French Election

Charles de Gaulle’s two-party system has broken down.

Nick OttensNick OttensApril 23, 2022June 1, 2022
Emmanuel Macron

Macron: Liberal In All But Trade

The French president’s liberalism stops at the border.

Nick OttensNick OttensFebruary 15, 2022March 19, 2022
Paris France

Two Visions of France

Éric Zemmour reduces the French to victims. Emmanuel Macron gives them agency.

Nick OttensNick OttensDecember 7, 2021January 5, 2022
Emmanuel Macron Mark Rutte

Commission Sides with Rutte over Macron on Industrial Policy

A Franco-German plan to relax antitrust rules is defeated.

Nick OttensNick OttensNovember 24, 2021December 19, 2021
Budapest Hungary

Who Wants to Live in Hungary?

Not Viktor Orbán’s Western fans.

Nick OttensNick OttensAugust 10, 2021November 28, 2021
Emmanuel Macron

The Dictator of France

Emmanuel Macron an “authoritarian”? He is the most liberal president of France in forty years!

Nick OttensNick OttensMarch 27, 2021March 28, 2022
Wopke Hoekstra

Butter on Their Heads

Let the Dutch Christian Democrats and Labor look in the mirror before blaming Mark Rutte.

Nick OttensNick OttensJanuary 24, 2021December 1, 2021
Mark Rutte

Rutte’s Liberal Party Shifts to Center in Netherlands

On environmental policy, government spending and wages, the party is moving to the middle.

Nick OttensNick OttensNovember 7, 2020April 20, 2022
Emmanuel Macron

Criticism of Macron’s Islam Policy Is Over the Top

The French president hasn’t ordered a “crackdown” of Muslims.

Nick OttensNick OttensOctober 27, 2020November 12, 2021
Giuseppe Conte Mark Rutte

Dutch Parties Take Risk Attacking Liberalism

It’s a way to attack a popular prime minister without mentioning him, but it could backfire.

Nick OttensNick OttensSeptember 15, 2020November 15, 2021

Standing Up to Cancel Culture

Left- and right-wing thinkers agree cancel culture is getting out of hand.

Nick OttensNick OttensJuly 8, 2020February 17, 2023
White House Washington

Center-Left and Center-Right Need to Team Up Against Extremists

We have more in common with each other than we do with the woke left or the reactionary right.

Nick OttensNick OttensJuly 5, 2020April 20, 2022
Sebastian Kurz Emmanuel Macron

Macron the Secret Islamophobe

Some detect bigotry behind the liberal facade.

Nick OttensNick OttensNovember 30, 2019December 2, 2021
Albert Rivera

Spain’s Liberal Party Needs to Make Up Its Mind

The Citizens can either fight Catalan independence or liberalize Spain.

Nick OttensNick OttensJune 13, 2019November 18, 2021

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