Things were so much easier back then.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why POLITICO decided to extend to Brussels to cover European politics: If there\u2019s something journalists love, it\u2019s doing something easy. And so, POLITICO Europe was born.<\/p>\n
Making EU policy sexy? Piece of cake. Shining a light on European institutions to make them more intelligible? You got it. Covering overly complex processes to pass laws that most people don\u2019t like, only some understand, and no one will ever hear about in the 27 member states? Sign us up.<\/p>\n
We went through the terrible twos with Brexit and Donald Trump in power in the U.S. \u2014 never forget the glorious covfefe tweet; we also learned to read and write about pandemics and air-born viruses during our primary school phase \u2014 Declassified secretly misses the Covid-19 days when sitting on the couch binging TV shows was considered being a responsible citizen. Finally, some visionary at POLITICO Towers agreed to launch this very column in 2019 \u2014 a true sign of bravery.<\/p>\n
But we are now officially approaching our pre-teen years: Wish us luck, we\u2019ll need it.<\/p>\n
In 2025, the climate is still on fire \u2014 quite literally \u2014 and no one seems particularly bothered by it; Europe\u2019s fun uncle who will not turn down that drink offer after all \u2014 Jean-Claude Juncker \u2014 has been replaced by the more stern and sober monarch wannabe, Ursula von der Leyen; and terrorist attacks\u2019 front-page slots have been given to the wars that are still going on in Ukraine, Gaza and many other places around the world.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s to another decade of chaotic politics and not-so-boring policies; hopefully, we\u2019ll manage to have (some) fun along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things were so much easier back then. That\u2019s why POLITICO decided to extend to Brussels to cover European…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6904,19132,32,2000,7335,299,5187,2816,19133,17792,1772,19134,49,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-32419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-declassified","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-commission","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-politics","16":"tag-jean-claude-juncker","17":"tag-paris-climate-agreement","18":"tag-u-s-politics","19":"tag-u-s-presidential-campaigns","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114363598313110558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}