Editorials

A foreign policy approach – to competitors, potential partners and friends alike – based on open-ended negotiations and no preconditions seems like the triumph of flexibility.

Washington, Trumpland's chilly capital, and I mean really chilly. An icy wind is ruffling the identical jackets of all the civil servants (a few thousand) who are currently quitting the corridors of power.

Washington, capitale fredda di Trumplandia. Fredda davvero: un vento gelido soffia sulle giacche tutte uguali dei funzionari – qualche migliaia – che stanno lasciando le stanze del potere.

"European defense" is a loaded concept.

If Hillary Clinton had won, Europe's governments would have been facing a tricky foreign policy scenario (ranging from confrontation with Russia to escalation in Syria) but they would have had an easier time on the domestic political…