You are listening to the Globalist, first broadcast on 24 December 2024 on Monocle Radio.
The Globalist in association with UBS, broadcasting from Midori House in London.
This is a special edition of the Globalist and I'm Chris Chermack.
Coming up, a look at the year that was in the world of elections and politics.
Nina Dos Santos joins to discuss how Europe will react to Trump 2.0.
Chris, that is a multi trillion dollar question.
If 2022 and 2023 were years when we saw war break out, it's likely that 2025 is going to be a year of the return of the trade war, thanks to Donald Trump.
More on that shortly.
From there we head to Japan and a new prime minister who will have to prove he has staying power in the coming year.
We'll also look at the disputed elections and lurches from left to right in Latin America.
And finally, as long as you pay.
Taxes, as long as you didn't rebel against the Ottoman Empire, you could practice whatever religion, whatever beliefs you had.
And this changed.
Yossi Meckelburg reflects on a year like few before in the Middle East.
That's all up ahead on a special edition of the Globalist from Midor Story House in London.
Welcome to the Globalist.
It has been the biggest year of elections ever seen, capped with perhaps one of the most consequential results of our time in the decisive election of Donald Trump in the United States.
Now, considering that Trump permeates almost every conversation as it is, we are not going to tackle Trump head on with today's show.
Instead, we'll be exploring different regions of the world that have been impacted by the upheaval of this past year in politics.
And we will start with Europe.