THE AMERICA ONE NEWS
May 31, 2025  |  
0
 | Remer,MN
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge.
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge and Reasoning Support for Fantasy Sports and Betting Enthusiasts.
back  
topic
The Economist
The Economist
1 May 2025


NextImg:The unbearable self-indulgence of Europe
Europe | Charlemagne

The unbearable self-indulgence of Europe

There are five luxuries it can no longer feasibly afford

“For things to remain the same, everything must change.” The aphorism from “The Leopard”, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel about 19th-century bluebloods trying to keep their privileged perch as Sicily boils with revolution, neatly encapsulates Europe’s 21st-century predicament. A peninsula dense with countries that once ruled vast swathes of the planet has watched uncomfortably as former colonies caught up or insolently forged ahead. It knows full well change is necessary. Yet Europe can seem as comfortable with adaptation to an evolving world as decadent Italian aristos of yesteryear. Give me the will to enact reforms, Lord, but can it be domani?

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The unbearable self-indulgence of Europe”

Friedrich Merz

Germany’s staid-seeming new chancellor has a mercurial streak

Friedrich Merz’s career is one of unforced errors and puzzling missteps. But he is serious about Europe

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko sign a deal that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals

A mineral deal with America points to a path ahead for Ukraine

Both Donald Trump and Ukraine’s diplomats will consider it a success



100 days of Trump: the growing dismay in Europe

Donald Trump’s insults have soured the continent on its cousins 

The pope’s last coded message

Trump and Zelensky attend in Rome with 250,000 others

Ukraine’s fighters fear Russian attacks and America’s ceasefire

On the front line they want peace, but not at any price