The Best of POLITICOEurope
7 most popular POLITICOEurope articles, as voted by our community.
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POLITICOEurope on Future Cities
The promise of the 15-minute city
Politicians and urban planners are betting on hyper-local living. But is it a path to urban utopia or just a fad?
POLITICOEurope on Politics
Meet Europe’s coming military superpower: Poland
Warsaw is turning to major arms deals with South Korea to establish supremacy in Continental Europe.
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Forget Brexit, here comes Marine Le Pen
Expect trouble if Emmanuel Macron’s far-right challenger becomes president.
«She would withhold €5 billion per year in payments into the EU budget, give preference to French businesses on all national and local government contracts, and extra subsidies to French farmers. She also says she’d reimpose checks at France’s land borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and Spain.»
The short unhappy life of Elizabeth Windsor
To provide the United Kingdom with the monarch she felt it needed, Queen Elizabeth II sacrificed an ordinary life and the other things most of us take for granted.
Cities are death traps in extreme heat — but they don’t have to be
Heat waves are part of the new normal, and some cities are better prepared than others.
The most dangerous place on earth
In a showdown between Russia and NATO, the ‘Suwałki Gap’ would likely be the first point of contact.
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