2025-10-02
24 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Blaw.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
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to protest against the government's failure to improve their plight.
Our correspondent gives us the view from the ground.
And we've had so many letters about last week's segment on the benefits of sunlight
that we've invited our bright correspondent back to answer some of your questions.
But first, In the skies above Europe, there have been some curious happenings of late.
First came a wave of Russian drones into Poland on September the 9th.
10 days later, a trio of Russian fighter jets traversed Estonian air space for 12 minutes.
And then there were those mysterious drones that shut down airports in Denmark and Norway.
It's all slightly odd, but some reckon it's more sinister than that.
In the last few weeks, it does look as though Vladimir Putin is turning the screws on Europe.
Shashank Joshi is The Economist's Defence editor.
Some people call this hybrid warfare, others talk about the gray zone between war and peace.
Military experts often think both terms are a little bit vacuous,
but what they represent I think captures something of the murkiness and the sense of pressure and competition
that is unfolding in Europe in the last weeks and days.