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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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Women Lead The Way Against Belarus’ Patriarch, Says Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

“Our women understood they don’t have to stay in their kitchens and can go and fight for their rights beside  — and even in front of their men,” said Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I’ve reported from the former Soviet empire since 1996. I started working as National Public Radio’s Moscow correspondent in December 2016. Before that I contributed to Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg and The Moscow Times, among others.

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