Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
If French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have one thing going for them, it is their own mutual desire to make their partnership work. Ideally, they will enter into an op… read more
Rather than standing exclusively with the old elites or the new populists, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to rally broad political support under the banner of European unity. But can he… read more
After the UK's unexpected vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump’s unexpected triumph in the US presidential election last year, you might imagine that EU leaders have developed detailed contingency pl… read more
It might be cathartic to call Donald Trump an idiot, but the implications of his presidency are serious. If Trump’s progressive opponents fail to engage with the forces that drove his victory – in par… read more
After the annus horribilis that was 2016, most political observers believe that the liberal world order is in serious trouble. While the world can do without some elements of that order, its wholesale… read more
Donald Trump's election as US president and the UK's Brexit vote revealed a deep generational divide. But while cosmopolitan millennials and nationalist pensioners may seem to be staring at one anothe… read more
In Brexit pre-negotiations, both UK and EU officials have ignored the far-reaching implications of Donald Trump’s election as US president – namely, the decline of the liberal world order. Unless they… read more
Europeans will not only have to get used to Donald Trump; they will have to look at the world through different eyes. There are four reasons to believe that Trump’s America will be the single biggest … read more
British Prime Minister Theresa May, who once warned her fellow Conservatives of the perils of being known as the “nasty party,” is in danger of turning the UK into the nasty country. Britain's cosmopo… read more
Some 240 million people today are living outside their country of birth – enough to form the world’s fifth most populous country. And yet, while few topics are more politically salient, international … read more
