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The Economist Mar 27

Donald Trump is affecting politics everywhere

The effects are often unexpected

The Economist Mar 25

Europe will have to zip its lip over China’s abuses

In a fracturing world, trade and co-operation will come first

The Economist Mar 23

Trump is a problem for Europe’s most important hard-right leaders

His antics are causing headaches for Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen

The Economist Mar 20

The right way to fight nativists

A revealing new history of the cold-war crisis that inspired modern refugee law

The Economist Mar 19

Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece

The shutdown of VOA, RFE/RL and other broadcasters weakens America and supporters of democracy

EEA Featured Articles Mar 19

Editorial — Europe's sustainability compass in times of uncertainty

The past few years have tested us in ways not many of us could have predicted. The pandemic and its health and economic impacts were...

EEA Featured Articles Mar 19

Interview — The data behind our knowledge: what and how

Karl Hamilton heads our Agency’s Digital department and his team’s work is crucial to the EEA’s knowledge work which relies on the use of high-quality...

BBC Science Mar 19

Astronauts Butch and Suni finally back on Earth

Dolphins circled their capsule after it landed off the coast of Florida.

The Economist Mar 16

Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes

Will America’s president damage the world’s most powerful intelligence pact?

The Economist Mar 13

Could Europe replace Starlink if America pulls the plug?

Only with something inferior to Elon Musk’s offering

The Economist Mar 13

Trump’s whims are overriding the national interest

Foreign-policy realists will struggle to explain America’s sharp turn

The Economist Mar 12

Europe thinks the unthinkable on a nuclear bomb

Poland wants co-operation with France on a nuclear deterrent. That could take many forms

The Economist Mar 12

NATO’s race against Russia to rearm

The alliance has three to four years to adopt AI and new tech

The Economist Mar 10

The War Room newsletter: “Be quiet, small man”—diplomacy, Musk style

The Economist Mar 6

The tech bros selling drugs by drone

How criminal innovators are mastering synthetic drugs, AI, the dark web and drones

The Economist Mar 6

America First is a contagious condition

Donald Trump’s resentful, show-me-the-money approach to statecraft is catching on

The Economist Feb 26

America’s self-isolating president

No, Donald Trump’s Putin-wooing is not like Nixon going to China

The Economist Feb 25

Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?

An independent army, air force and nuclear bomb would come at a high price

The Economist Feb 18

Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world

The country has long relied on America for security and China for its prosperity. Those two pillars are wobbling

The Economist Feb 17

Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?

How Donald Trump’s about-turn in Europe will affect Asia

The Economist Feb 16

Donald Trump is junking the transatlantic alliance

Europe has been left scrambling after an attack on the partnership that kept the peace for nearly 80 years

The Economist Feb 9

China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan 

Seventy countries have recently backed “all Chinese efforts” to take the island

The Economist Feb 6

Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare

China is weaponising its supply chains, but risks blowback if it goes too far

The Economist Feb 4

Allies will not appease Donald Trump for ever

If Trump convinces partners that the post-1945 order really is dead, things will get ugly