Caroline de Gruyter is a columnist at Foreign Policy and a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC. She currently lives in Brussels.
A protester wearing a yellow vest, oven mitts and a protective visor with a sign reading "500,000 euros of tableware, that's a lot of masks Brigitte" faces gendarmes during a demonstration in Paris, on July 14, 2020.
US President Donald Trump listens as Nigel Farage speaks during a Make America Great Again rally at Phoenix Goodyear Airport October 28, 2020, in Goodyear, Arizona.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrives for a debate on the future of Europe during a plenary session at the European Parliament on June 13, 2018 in Strasbourg, eastern France.