2025-12-12
27 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Later, our obituaries editor will look back on the career of Frank Gehry, perhaps the world's most innovative architect.
But first, The pattern is by now clear.
Europe's centrists are losing ground, in particular to parties of the populist right.
Reform UK, Alternative for Germany, France's National Rally, all are having a bumper year.
We are all ships rising on a turquoise tide, headed ever closer towards winning the next general election!
We fight for secure borders and law and order.
Préparons-nous, car le changement n'attend plus.
Vive la France et vive la République.
Yesterday we talked about America's new national security strategy,
which pledges specifically to help those populist right parties, to help Europe escape what it calls civilizational erasure.
The continent's centrists in turn claim those parties present actual existential risks.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer told us that Britain
as we know it would cease to exist if Reform were to win the next election.
In Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that his time in office is the last chance for the center.
After bruising elections last year, France's Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron warned of brewing civil war.
It's dramatic visions all round.