Ukraine is cut out of negotiations between America and Russia
Editor’s note: On February 12th President Donald Trump confirmed that he had spoken to Vladimir Putin. Mr Trump said they had...
Ukraine’s president fears Donald Trump is keeping him out of the loop
VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY, Ukraine’s man of action, doesn’t take to limbo easily. His five and a half years as president have been a...
Transcript:An interview with Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine’s president spoke to The Economist on February 11th in Kyiv. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Th...
Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate A.I.
Vice President JD Vance told European and Asian leaders in Paris on Tuesday that the Trump administration was adopting an agg...
Germany’s “business model is gone”, warns Friedrich Merz
IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a sm...
Can Europe afford to be the world’s last free-trader?
The European Union seems an unorthodox champion of free trade. Beyond a few purveyors of handbags and slimming drugs, few of ...
Can Georgia’s shadowy despot survive?
On November 28th, the day the Georgian government announced it was suspending talks on joining the EU, the Royal District The...
The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible
For centuries the “fog of war”, the inability to see through the confusion of combat, has been a given. No longer. The front ...
Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia
Alper Gezeravci’s first message from space was a patriotic one. “The future is in the skies,” he said from a Falcon 9 rocket ...
Germany’s election campaign is creating a security risk
IN FEBRUARY 2022, three days after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, declared a generational...