Caroline de Gruyter is a journalist and speaker based in Brussels. She is a correspondent and columnist on European Affairs for NRC Handelsblad and regularly contributes to Foreign Policy, EUobserver, and De Standaard.
Caroline de Gruyter is a journalist and speaker based in Brussels. She is a correspondent and columnist on European Affairs for NRC Handelsblad and regularly contributes to Foreign Policy, EUobserver and De Standaard. She has been writing about Europe for nearly 25 years, from various angles of the continent.
Between 2008 and 2013, she reported from Brussels on the euro crisis and European politics. In 2013, she received the prestigious Anne Vondeling Prize for her political reporting. The jury described her as “extraordinarily well-informed.” In 2015, she received the Heldring Prize for best Dutch columnist. The jury found her weekly columns to be of “exceptional quality.” In 2016, she received the Prix du Mérite Européen and in 2017 the ‘EuroDutch’ award.
Caroline has previously lived in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, Brussels, Geneva, Vienna, and Oslo and is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She has written six books, all of which relate in some way to globalization, democracy, and the political quicksand of sovereignty. Book number five (March 2021) is a bestselling comparison between the EU and the Habsburg Empire.