The Economist (Middle East and Africa) - 13 Dez 2025
EUROPE’S POPULIST RIGHT
The battle for the future of Hollywood
America’s national security strategy
Germany’s lawyer problem
Our economy of the year
Apocalyptic warnings about the dangers of the European populist-right are bound to fail:
Oracle illustrates how AI is changing the once-cushy software industry,
Reform UK in office
What ails Asia’s megacities
Presidential power
Chile’s next president
Guinea’s giant mine
Russia soldiers on
The battle for the future of Hollywood
We assess the populists’ rapid rise in Europe’s three biggest countries: briefing, page 17. Reform UK has become more moderate in office,
On life in Iran, Germany and China, quantum computing, carrier pigeons, trees, smiling at work
Germany’s lawyer problem
America’s national security strategy
Mark Leonard on Europe’s MAGA challenge
The knock-downdrag-out fight over MAGA’s foreign policy,
Economy of the year
Europe’s populist right
A summary of political and business news
The global economy
Germany’s AfD
Reform UK
France’s National Rally
Ukraine’s diplomatic drama
Who is Fernando Cerimedo?
America abroad
Warner Bros
American tariffs
The peacemaker
From Russia with fertiliser
Lebanon’s lack of reform
A Trump truce collapses
India grounded
Albania charms the EU
Spooks and smugglers
Troops in Puerto Rico
Australia’s hard right
Insecurity in Nigeria
Congo and Rwanda
Peace with the PKK
Welcome to Miami
Betting on campus
AI and policing
Trains in Ukraine
Doctor burnout
Scrooge Britain
Israel in Syria
Our economic rankings
Exports surge
The fight for Warner Bros Discovery
The next web
Conservative women’s media
The Hermès heist
MAGA’s foreign policy
Frank Gehry, architect and master-iconoclast
Statistics on 42 economies
German stagnation
Alcohol and ageing
Trump’s and Xi’s nostalgia
Canada and China become friends again
Oracle’s predicament
Asia’s inexpensive AI stocks
Trump’s chip-control gambit
Doghouse diplomacy
Wrap it up
AI comes for shopping
Hotel rooms
China’s drink problem
Going for yellow gold
VinFast guzzles cash
Ancient tinderboxes
Best albums of 2025
Obdurate smokers
Nannying the web
Bond-market quiet
Reusable rockets
AI and the Bible
Bank mergers
M.F. Husain
The world this week Politics
The world this week Business
Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?
An unreliable ally
Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar surplus
A major question
The plot thickens
The reality in Iran
Quantum leap
There’s always a word
A bird’s-eye view
Lacking a smiley culture
Tales of the wood
Mark Leonard
Right riveting
The Alternative for Germany
France’s National Rally
Growing without restraint
Preparing for power
Soldiering on
Albania sweet-talks the EU
Sanctions against Russia
Ukraine negotiations
Charlemagne is away
Ukraine’s trains
Turkey’s Kurds
Working the bouncers
Stumbling towards peace
A sprouting contradiction
One battle after another
Rolling crisis
Contact with reality
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Scrooge Britain
Bagehot is away
AI and policing
’Tis the season for half-hearted giving
ChatPC
The promise of Simandou
Deals, but no peace, in Congo
Israel refuses to leave Syria
Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis
Lebanon’s lack of reform
Many deals, no peace
Sorry states
No time like sometime
A dangerous border
Welcome to Miami
Doctor burnout
The war over independence
Lexington: The president of peace
Spooks and smugglers
Betting on campus
Welcome to Miami
Spies and narcos
Studying the odds
Dr Feelbad
Peace in his mind
The die may be Kast
Who is Fernando Cerimedo?
Troops in Puerto Rico
Good Morning, Puerto Rico
MAGA’s man in LatAm
Agglomerate this!
Australia’s hard right resurges
A Trump truce collapses
Banyan: India grounded
Back at it
Dodgy outfits
Going nowhere fast
Not so self-reliant
Canada and China make up
Chaguan: Doghouse diplomacy
The smoking addiction
Weighing the threat
Struggling to quit
The pain of the doghouse
Deals and ideals
The Telegram: MAGA versus Mao
Back to the future
BIRKIN BAD
That’s not all, folks!
Schumpeter: Oracle’s predicament
Bartleby: A guide to hotel rooms
Trump’s chip-control gambit
AI comes for shopping
VinFast guzzles cash
Nannying the web
Bot and sold
The Nvidia way
Nannying the web
Speeding downhill
A short guide to your hotel room
Hard truths about software
Muito bom
The suspiciously quiet bond market
Free exchange: German stagnation
Wall Street’s dealmakers rejoice
Buttonwood: Asia’s AI boom
China’s drink problem
Tasty prospects
The Treasury’s cunning plan
Spirit of the age
Go east
The rule of law
Intelligent protocol
China closes in on reusable rockets
Well informed: Alcohol and ageing
The world’s oldest tinderboxes
Head to head
Sparks will fly
Why hangovers get worse as you get older
Got a light?
Make America Bake Again
The best albums of 2025
Back Story: Wrap it up
Going for yellow gold
AI and the Bible
M.F. Husain
Climbing the Tower of Babel
A brush with scandal
Strike a chord
The gilded age
That’s a wrap
Economic & financial indicators
Frank Gehry
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