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For Europe, the Party’s Over. It’s Not Clear What Comes Next.

Published May 24, 2016 in Reuters Leave a comment

The promise of Europe is over. Paradoxically, German hubris carries a good deal of the blame.

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How Angela Merkel Became the Last Best Hope for European Liberalism

Published January 19, 2016 in Slate Leave a comment

The influx of refugees isn’t a “German problem.” It is the deepest crisis in the EU’s existence — and a fight for the liberal values that define it.

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Why It’s So Hard for Germany to Lead on the Migrant Crisis – or Anything Else

Published September 7, 2015 in Reuters Leave a comment

In Germany, even the semantics of the word “to lead” — fuehren — are loaded because of associations with Adolf Hitler.

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A European Disaster

Published September 4, 2015 in Slate Leave a comment

A refugee crisis is exposing the cracks in a continent that was supposedly whole and free.

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Budapest Revisits its Recent Horrors

Published April 6, 2003 in The Boston Globe Leave a comment

Few residents would disagree that Budapest’s newest museum, the House of Terror, is haunted. But the ghosts of a turbulent history have not been put to rest.

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Putin’s War on Young People

If Russia is ever to become a country that seeks peace with its neighbors and respects the rights of its own citizens, then such a future depends on Russia’s young people.

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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I reported from the former Soviet empire for 25 years for NPR, Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg, and others. My first book, Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine, is now available from Columbia University Press.

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