2025-06-24
24 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Leaders of the NATO countries are gathering today to finish off a plan to massively increase their defence spending.
Well, most of them.
We take a deeper look at the commitments and ask whether they will appease the alliance's most fickle member.
And public holidays are a blissful invention.
Only problem is they're a drag on productivity and the economy.
So Germany's government is considering removing one of those precious days from the national calendar.
But first… On the show yesterday morning,
the big question in the aftermath of America's strikes on Iran was what response it would provoke.
By yesterday evening, we had an answer.
Iran fired 14 missiles at an American airbase in Qatar,
one for each of the American bombs that fell on its nuclear facilities.
But it gave both the Qataris and the Americans advance notice, and it seems no one was injured.
A couple of hours later, Donald Trump declared a ceasefire had been negotiated.
This morning, Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz,
said that Iran had violated the deal in its opening hours by firing missiles into northern Israel.