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What does the future look like for global aid, NGOs, and development diplomacy? Which new approaches in international development should the world move toward? Eight authors tackle these topics in FP’s latest print issue, available to read now:
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FP’s Fall 2025 Print Magazine: The End of Development
https://foreignpolicy.com/the-magazine/?issue_id=411132449
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Air pollution causes an estimated 2 million premature deaths annually in the region.
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Air Pollution Is Choking South Asia
Smog is crossing borders and wrecking lives.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/19/pollution-delhi-south-asia-aqi/
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There are few existing agreements in history that could serve as a model for a possible buffer zone in the Donbas.
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There's No Precedent for Ukraine's Proposed Peace Deal
History doesn’t suggest a demilitarized zone in eastern Ukraine would work.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/19/ukraine-peace-deal-donbas-donetsk-demilitarized-territory/
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The National Security Strategy shows us that histories and legacies of racism continue to shape the global order, Somdeep Sen writes.
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Trump’s National Security Strategy Seeks to Make Europe Great Again
Alongside an indictment of the continent sits a sacrosanctity accorded to its civilization.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/19/national-security-strategy-trump-europe-language/
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In Haiti, the global community is stepping up with financial, material, and personnel contributions when traditional multilateral responses fail.
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The Silver Lining of ‘Haiti Fatigue’
The Trump administration’s U.N. resolution reimagines international responses to humanitarian crises.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/19/haiti-un-resolution-humanitarian-crisis-response/
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The Trump administration’s strategic pivot aims to rebuild the foundational source of U.S. global power—a prosperous, economically integrated, and secure hemisphere, Ryan C. Berg and Joseph Ledford write.
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Trump’s Western Hemisphere Pivot Is Real
Enforcing a 21st-century Monroe Doctrine means recalibrating U.S. defense posture.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/19/trump-western-hemisphere-pivot-nss/
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In remembering the Maginot Line, the image of overconfident security is easy to grasp. The problem is that it has little to do with what really happened in 1940, writes historian Alan Allport.
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U.S. Strategists Keep Getting France’s Defeat Wrong
Myths about the Maginot Line are strangely persistent.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/france-united-states-military-1940-world-war-ii/
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As the United States assumes the rotating G-20 presidency, it is simultaneously working to expel South Africa and abandon the priorities that have guided the G-20 in recent years, writes Binaifer Nowrojee.
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Don’t Let Trump Destroy the G-20
Barring South Africa will fundamentally weaken the G20. Its members must push back.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/trump-south-africa-g20-brics-china-crisis/
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Rather than seeking a sweeping new agreement on space policy, a regular conference of the parties could allow for incremental progress within the current legal framework, writes Ely Sandler.
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The World Needs a Space COP
Negotiating a new treaty to manage space seems hopeless, but a workable mechanism exists.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/outer-space-treaty-cop-satellites-congestion-orbit-debris/
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FP’s SitRep sat down with former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, a Nobel Peace laureate, and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo to get their thoughts on the escalating situation and its impact on Latin America.
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Trump Hasn’t Learned From History in Latin America
The former leaders of Colombia and Mexico are concerned over recent U.S. actions
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/trump-venezuela-strikes-bongino-ukraine-taiwan/
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Beijing’s new Latin America blueprint is noteworthy for its contrasts with the Trump administration’s declared strategy and priorities in the region.
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China Responds to Trump’s Revived Monroe Doctrine
Amid the U.S. naval blockade announcement off the coast of Venezuela, Beijing has released its new strategy for the region.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/china-latin-america-white-paper-strategy-trump-us-venezuela/
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The Benin coup attempt laid bare the deepening fault lines in a part of Africa that has recently grown ever more unstable, columnist
@hofrench.bsky.social
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Political theater, meant to project toughness or distract from policy failure, is replacing the harder work of addressing threats with strategy, argues Adam Weinstein.
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Tarique Rahman, the son of a political dynasty, is set to return after more than 17 years in self-exile ahead of Bangladesh’s national elections.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/17/b...
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A new U.S. initiative, known as Pax Silica, is aimed at securing new AI supply chains targeting critical minerals, semiconductors, and advanced manufacturing.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/t...
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U.S. diplomats can breathe a sigh of relief following the decision by a U.S. judge to temporarily block the implementation of mass federal layoffs until the end of January, reports FP’s Rachel Oswald.
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The way Gaza rebuilds in the next several years will determine whether this moment can break the region’s long cycle of violence or become yet another false dawn, writes Shelly Culbertson.
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A proposed Bangladesh-China-Pakistan nexus bodes ill for India’s standing in the region.
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Abundance cannot be achieved through domestic policy alone.
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As famine spreads across Sudan, the United Nations World Food Program has announced that it will need to cut back on its operations in the country due to a lack of funding.
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Recently elected Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has proposed an ambitious 21 trillion yen spending program that puts new stresses on already heavily overdrawn government coffers, writes William Sposato.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Takes on Bond Market Vigilantes
Sanae Takaichi’s massive spending program could be a risky political win.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/sanae-takaichi-japanese-prime-minister-bonds-stimulus/
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Happening now: James Story, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela during the Trump and Biden administrations, joins FP Live to discuss what comes next in Caracas. Watch the live interview here:
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Trump’s Options in Venezuela
Will the White House actually sanction an attack on Venezuela? With the USS Gerald R. Ford deployed in the region, the odds seem high. But many experts—as well as a faction of the MAGA base—warn again...
https://foreignpolicy.com/live/trumps-options-in-venezuela/
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Despite rising youth unemployment in China, the glorification of soldiers in state media, and competitive pay and benefits, the PLA remains unattractive to many young people.
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What’s It Like to Be a Chinese Soldier?
Behind the parades, recruits face long deployments, strict rules, and limited opportunities.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/china-military-pla-soldier-history-veteran/
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All eyes are on a European Union meeting on Thursday to see if the bloc can finally break a logjam and find a way to tap hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen Russian Central Bank reserves, writes
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Europe Is Racing the Clock to Tap Russia’s Frozen Assets
Brussels is trying to convince holdouts to support a novel plan to use billions of Moscow’s money to aid Ukraine.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/eu-reparations-loan-ukraine-russia-frozen-assets/
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World Brief: U.S. President Donald Trump orders a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers tied to Venezuela, Australia charges a suspected gunman in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, and lawmakers move toward increasing abortion access across the European Union.
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Trump Escalates Venezuela Pressure With Oil Tanker Blockade
Critics fear this is a step toward the United States declaring war on Caracas.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/17/trump-us-blockade-venezuela-sanctioned-oil-tankers-maduro-regime-change/
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If the U.S. doesn’t reverse its Assad-era sanctions, Syria’s suffering and its people’s hard-won progress could be squandered, write Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Rep. Joe Wilson.
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One Year on, U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Syria’s Recovery
Short-term waivers are a start, but Congress must act on the full repeal Syria needs to rebuild.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/syria-caesar-sanctions-assad-sharaa-iran-russia/
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The Trump administration’s Global Health Strategy is a step in the right direction, but promising policy does not ensure successful implementation.
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The Trump Administration’s Epochal Shift on Foreign Aid
The change to funding governments instead of NGOs is long overdue but could easily go wrong.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/us-foreign-aid-usaid-state-department-trump/
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In Southeast Asia, four stories stood out in 2025—and reshaped the region.
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Southeast Asia’s Year in Review
Tracking the region’s biggest developments in 2025.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/southeast-asia-review-2025-thailand-cambodia-war/
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Choking off oil flows, the source of almost all of the Venezuelan government’s revenue, could be a backbreaker for President Nicolás Maduro’s rule, writes FP’s
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Trump Announces Blockade on Sanctioned Oil Tankers to and From Venezuela
Choking off oil flows could be a backbreaker for President Nicolás Maduro’s rule.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/17/trump-blockade-venezuela-maduro-oil-tankers-sanctions/
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Congress’s annual defense bill aims to reverse a troubling course and recenter resilience in U.S. defense policy.
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Congress Is Recommitting to Resilience
But the NDAA can only do so much when the president won’t help.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/congress-national-defense-authorization-act-ndaa-resilience-policy/
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Many experts warn against military action in Venezuela, but what is Trump thinking? James Story, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela during the Trump and Biden administrations, will join FP Live to discuss Trump’s options and what could happen next. Register here:
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Trump’s Options in Venezuela
Will the White House actually sanction an attack on Venezuela? With the USS Gerald R. Ford deployed in the region, the odds seem high. But many experts—as well as a faction of the MAGA base—warn…
https://foreignpolicy.com/live/trumps-options-in-venezuela/
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Trump’s agenda reads less like a diplomatic framework for peace and more like a corporate restructuring plan for Russia.
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Trump’s Business Model Is to Break Europe
Washington wants a free hand for Silicon Valley and Russia investment. The EU is an obstacle—and the far right is an ally.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/trum-vance-europe-silicon-valley-right-national-security-strategy/
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“Souleymane’s Story” follows its title character over the 48 hours leading up to his immigration interview, where he must prove that he has faced sufficient persecution to qualify for asylum and be granted the right to stay in France.
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A Tale of Two Asylum-Seekers
“Souleymane’s Story” interrogates the fictions we tell ourselves about what makes an acceptable migrant.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/souleymanes-story-film-review-france-migration-politics/
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The Islamic republic continues to project strength through its security services and regional networks, yet it no longer controls the symbolic universe that once anchored its legitimacy, writes Menahem Merhavy.
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Iran Has a New Moral Order
The Islamic republic no longer controls the symbolic universe that once anchored its legitimacy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/iran-moral-order-islamic-republic-veil-protests-woman-life-freedom/
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Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that would reauthorize a key U.S. global infrastructure finance agency while turbocharging its lending authorities, FP’s Rachel Oswald reports.
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Congress Aims to Turbocharge the U.S. Development Finance Corporation
The agency will be empowered to issue hundreds of billions of dollars in new loans to foreign countries.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/ndaa-dfc-reauthorization-development-finance-corporation-congress-loans/
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José Kast campaigned on a promise to crack down on illegal immigration and organized crime and to rekindle Chile’s weak economy.
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What Chile’s New President Means for the World
José Kast’s right-wing agenda has implications far beyond Chile’s borders.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/chile-kast-trump-populism-america-venezuela/
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Unlike during the Cold War, there is much less consensus today on which states pose the greatest threats or how best to respond to them, writes columnist
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‘Collective Security’ Is on Life Support
A basic concept of international relations is under unprecedented strain.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/nato-collective-security-alliances-nato-life-support/
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Qatar and Turkey could play a central role in pushing Hamas to lay down its arms, according to diplomats and experts.
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Does the Road to Disarming Hamas Lead Through Qatar and Turkey?
Diplomats and experts say Doha and Ankara have leverage, but it may not be enough.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/hamas-disarmament-israel-gaza-qatar-turkey-trump/
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Today, national interests are guiding international scientific partnerships, transforming science into a geopolitical battleground.
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The Death—and Rebirth—of Science Diplomacy
Once a vehicle for global cooperation, international science has become a high-stakes arena of geopolitical rivalry.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/science-diplomacy-soft-power-global-economic-security-competition/
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Violet Du Feng’s documentary “The Dating Game” follows three men’s attempts to reboot their dating lives in the wake of China’s former one-child policy.
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What Happens to China’s Surplus Men?
The one-child policy’s gender imbalance has spawned desperate bachelors, dubious gurus, and a rising manosphere.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/china-gender-dating-demographic-population-documentary/
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World Brief: Australia reels from its deadliest mass shooting in decades, Hong Kong convicts Jimmy Lai on national security charges, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky considers dropping Kyiv’s NATO ambitions.
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Albanese Denounces ‘Antisemitic Terrorism’ in Bondi Beach Mass Shooting
Australia has vowed to tighten gun laws to combat rising antisemitism.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/australia-bondi-beach-mass-shooting-antisemitism-albanese-gun-control/
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Re-read today, Franklin Foer’s 2004 classic, “How Soccer Explains the World,” inadvertently suggests where globalization went wrong.
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Soccer Still Has Some Explaining to Do
Re-read today, Franklin Foer’s 2004 classic inadvertently suggests where globalization went wrong.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/franklin-foer-how-soccer-explains-the-world-globalization-capitalism-fifa-world-cup/
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The Trump administration has broken with decades of settled practice on corruption issues, and the American people will pay the price, writes Christian Caryl.
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Beware of Trump’s Global Broligarchy
The president’s pay-to-play mentality is undermining U.S. foreign policy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/trump-business-corruption-investigation-kushner-witkoff-oligarchs/
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In 1966, Democratic Sen. J. William Fulbright opened a major investigation into Democratic President Lyndon Johnson’s expanding war in Vietnam. Congressional Republicans today should learn from his example, writes columnist Julian E. Zelizer.
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Are the Drug Boat Killings Trump’s Vietnam Moment?
One senator’s investigation into Lyndon Johnson’s expanding war was a turning point.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/drug-boat-trump-vietnam-moment/
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China’s annual trade surplus now stands at $1 trillion, the largest trade imbalance ever accumulated by any single country. Columnist Adam Tooze explores what that means for the global economy and trade.
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What to Make of China’s Trade Surplus
The imbalance raises questions about the global economy and Trump administration policy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/china-trade-surplus-economics-trump-policy/
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By selling China some of the most advanced U.S. hardware, Trump is voluntarily surrendering a widening strategic lead in artificial intelligence to Beijing, writes Aaron Bartnick.
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The Nvidia Chip Deal Is a National Security Disaster Waiting to Happen
Trump’s latest proposal would cede the United States’ AI advantage.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/nvidia-chips-national-security-trump-united-states-china-ai/
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After two decades of austerity and stasis, Germans are ready for growth. Can Friedrich Merz capitalize on it?
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Germany Loves to Hate Friedrich Merz
Germany’s chancellor is doing far better than everyone seems to think.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/friedrich-merz-germany-chancellor-economy-ukraine-trump-america/
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There is now a deep chasm between the United States and Europe.
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Putin’s Already Won
He’s exposed fatal divisions in the “West” even as Russians still back his Ukraine invasion.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/11/putin-west-russia-ukraine-won/
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By restructuring the armed forces’ command hierarchy, the reforms introduce unsettling ambiguities for Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, Haleema Saadia and Ali Mustafa write.
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Pakistan’s 27th Amendment Upends Its Nuclear Command
A constitutional reform throws restraint, deterrence, and regional stability into question.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/pakistan-constitution-amendment-nuclear-weapons-military-policy/
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“Moldovans have spoken loud and clear, time and time again, that they see their future in the free world,” says Moldovan Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi.
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Russia Sees the Former Soviet Union as a ‘Fiefdom,’ Moldova’s Foreign Minister Says
The foreign minister also said if anyone can bring peace to the region, it’s U.S. President Donald Trump.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/russia-putin-ukraine-moldova-foreign-minister-popsoi-interview/
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Framing the welfare state as the root cause of Europe’s economic malaise oversimplifies a far more complex reality, writes Omer Taspinar.
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The Welfare State Saved Capitalism. Now It Can Save European Democracy.
A growing skepticism of social spending risks undermining a post-war pillar of Europe’s stability.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/europe-democracy-welfare-state-spending-authoritarianism-populism/
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