2024-02-27
18 分钟The Economist. It's Monday, the 26th of February 2024.
I'm Jason Palmer, host of The Intelligence, our daily podcast on current affairs.
Welcome to Editor's Picks,
where you can hear three highlights from the weekly edition of The Economist read aloud.
Our cover story this week considers Europe's vulnerable position.
Caught between Russian aggression and American wavering,
the threat of war has revealed just how ill-equipped the continent is to defend itself.
Next, as the world grows increasingly dependent on key minerals,
we argue that governments are not doing enough to encourage their extractive industries.
And lastly, we look to the American economy.
As inflation threatens to bounce back, it may be a while before interest rates dip.
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First up, an unprepared Europe.
But the scale of its solution is hard to comprehend.
The security arrangements based on NATO that emerged from the Second World War and have prevented a third are so much part of Europe's fabric that remaking them will be an immense task.
European leaders urgently need to jettison their post-Soviet complacency.
That means raising defence spending to a level not seen in decades,
restoring Europe's neglected military traditions,