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Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev

The Guardian

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What if Putin and Xi live forever?

Leaders’ dreams of immortality are doing strange things to our politics

21.09.2025 10

Financial Times

Ivan Krastev

When anti-corruption campaigns become corrupted

Events in Ukraine and Bulgaria show how easily such bodies can become politicised

06.08.2025 30

Financial Times

Ivan Krastev

Some EU leaders can’t live with Trump — others can’t live without him

Maga’s ‘second American revolution’ has inspired European politicians on both left and right to rebrand themselves

26.06.2025 4

Financial Times

Ivan Krastev

The court of King Donald

People are willing to tolerate transparent conflicts of interest but they won’t stand for hypocrisy

31.05.2025 20

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Ukraine is caught up in Trump’s Ostpolitik

The historical period that began with the reunification of Germany is ending now for Europe

02.05.2025 10

Financial Times

Ivan Krastev

Europe should hijack Trump’s revolutionary plans for the world

Liberal nationalists must respond with imagination to US policies rather than gripe at being cut out of Ukraine talks

28.02.2025 9

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Ivan Krastev

The key to dealing with Trump is for Europe not to play the victim

EU member states should not be in a hurry to appease the new US president

16.01.2025 10

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Ivan Krastev

Liberal Europe must learn some history lessons to survive

Giving up the idea that 1989 marked an epochal victory for its worldview would reveal our current moment more clearly

20.12.2024 10

Financial Times

Ivan Krastev

The west only listens to what it wants to hear from Moscow

Putin is in no hurry to negotiate the end of conflict in Ukraine

24.10.2024 10

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Ivan Krastev

The rise of frozen democracies is bad news

Bulgaria is suffering from political long Covid — and the rest of Europe is at risk

13.09.2024 6

Financial Times

Ivan Krastev