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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon Reinventing globalisation How democracies decay The week central banks changed course Ever wider Constructive improvements The misrule of law On nuclear weapons, California, Southern Baptists, animals, management Allowing Ukraine into the EU is not the right move for now, say Luuk van Middelaar and Hans Kribbe Moldova’s deputy prime minister urges the EU to expand its membership Chain reaction The unclubbable in pursuit of the unwelcoming The $500bn question Keeping faith A new yawn Losing his grip NATO’s loose cannon A population puzzle Forms, frustration and fans Traffic flights The progressive pincer Conversion rates Under the hood A tale of two NATOs Wartime, all the time Truth kills Nothing to fear but fear itself? A deal at last More power to them? The criminal case against Donald Trump Change you can’t believe in Gobbling up whatever is left The son also rises Cutting costs Cryptocracy Here comes Rodolfo Ecuador reverts to type Take my arms Halfway high School’s out Pride and groom General unease Non-interfering mediation In need of guardrails The new normal Real problems Wrong’uns, not rights Old-model army A grim period Changing identities A loss of learning Stalled Captive states, misrule of law Uncle Sam or the dragon Agreement or anomie? Sources and acknowledgments The great Teslafication Bowled out Human capital in the 21st century Work, the wasted years The too-much-of-everything store Eight days that shook the markets Moment of truth Inequity in equities A non-fungible policy A tall order Don’t bet on Beveridge Engineering the god of war Painting with platelets And you thought covid was bad Make me a city The other da Vinci code War and words Walking the floors Wire fraud Far be it from me Economic data, commodities and markets The harshest affliction Could artificial intelligence become sentient? Why countries change names Paint power Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)