It is possible to be black and Dutch, or for a person of Moroccan descent to be unequivocally French. But is it possible to be non-white and to think of oneself as “European”? In most ways, certainly.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief was unequivocal when he delivered a speech on defense last month in Brussels. “We imagined to be surrounded by a ring of friends after the fall of Berlin Wall ...

Last century, many people still associated the Left with fun controlled chaos and the Right with boring, strict, and violent uniformity. It made an amusing caricature, I guess, to pitch the French May ...

The Dutch vote in a national election on Wednesday with a choice between doubling down on the anti-immigration nationalism of ...

By Stephanie van den Berg, Bart H. Meijer and Charlotte Van Campenhout THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Dutch voters cast their ballots ...

Parliamentary elections held recently in Ukraine confirmed an ongoing trend in Europe. Extreme right-wing parties are crossing the threshold of electoral acceptability and becoming mainstream ...

Cornell sociology professor Mabel Berezin will discuss the resurgence of extreme nationalism in contemporary Europe on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at SUNY Cortland. Berezin, who has a Ph.D. from Harvard ...

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SNIADOWO, Poland — The young mayor of this small town deep in eastern Poland is extremely proud of its new Italian fire engine, which sits, resplendent, next to a Soviet-era one. Nearby, the head of ...

Impressive far-right anti-immigration electoral gains caused French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the French National Assembly and call for snap legislative elections. But on the soccer pitch, ...

In Europe, however, ethnic nationalism provided the most influential answer to the question “who is the people?” The peoples of Europe were the major ethnic populations, which tended to be ...

When up to a dozen world leaders and roughly 1.5 million people gathered in Paris on Sunday to mourn the murder of 10 editors and cartoonists of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and seven other ...