Europe entered 2025 already strained by war, fractured politics, and economic anxiety. As Philippe Le Corre explains, this was the year when three pressures collided—an unending war in Ukraine, a drastically altered transatlantic dynamic under Trump 2.0, and a more openly competitive China

• Play Time : 34 mins

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• 2025 in Review
• Europe
• Philippe Le Corre
• geopolitics

A group of childhood friends retrace the bloodied battlegrounds of WWII Europe—from Normandy to Berlin—finding meaning, memory, and a warning for the present

• Read Time : 6 mins

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• Europe
• Nijmegen
• Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius
• Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Berlin
• Normandy
• FF Life
• Prague
• World War II
• Arnhem
• travelogue

Europe is caught between the left and right, antisemitism and Islamophobia, accepting asylum seekers and pushing back boats. The time for a delicate balancing act may be over. This is the second column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal

• Read Time : 1 mins

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• Europe
• year end special
• The World in 2023