Russian President Vladimir Putin managed to single-handedly spark a foreign policy revolution in Germany. Putin’s grotesque invasion of Ukraine

A coalition of Western allies - including the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom - unleashed a flurry of sanctions against

As the world crawls farther into the 21st century, Western Europe has seemingly begun to realize two certainties: that Russian influence will continue to have a destabilizing presence on Europe for decades to come, and that the catastrophic threat posed by climate change must be confronted with unprecedented urgency.

Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is viewed by some as indecisive and reserved regarding the Ukraine crisis– the hardest foreign affairs challenge yet in his tenure.

Austria became the first European democracy to institute a sweeping vaccine mandate for nearly its entire adult population on Friday. The move is regarded as a bellwether for other countries struggling to increase vaccination rates as the coronavirus pandemic enters its third year.