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Jean-Claude Juncker, pictured in his office at the European Commission building in Brussels, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

Jean-Claude Juncker, former EU chief: ‘Trump’s goal is to divide us. And he will fail again’

The statesman who was president of the European Commision between 2014 and 2019 is writing his memoirs. In his office at the executive branch of the EU, he argues that the combined shock of Trumpism and the invasion of Ukraine is forcing Europe into a geopolitical awakening. ‘The era of Trump, Putin, and Xi,’ he declares, ‘forces Europe to defend itself’ 

Pankaj Mishra in London on February 21.
POLITICAL THOUGHT

Pankaj Mishra, essayist: Trump and Putin are ‘two gangsters coming to a deal among themselves’

Following the publication of his new essay ‘The World After Gaza’, the Indian intellectual notes that the ‘ethnic cleansing’ that Israel is carrying out is the harbinger of a new culture of cruelty and impunity taking hold in the world. In his view, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have demonstrated the moral, political and military weakness of the West

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