🇩🇪When Angela Merkel retired in 2021, she was heralded as this great European leader. 🔁But today her legacy is in tatters. We asked @tom_nuttall why the pendulum swung so hard and so fast in the other direction. 👂Links below👇

🎙️NEW PODCAST 🇩🇪Merkel left power in December 2021. 3 months later, the war in Ukraine shattered continental peace and her legacy 📖With Merkel's memoirs out, @GuyChazan & @tom_nuttall explain to us what the "ex-leader of the free world" got wrong... and right! 👂Links below👇

🎙️NEW PODCAST 🌪️In 1919, in a ravaged Europe, the world gathers at Versailles to redraw a modern Europe 🇫🇷 Was the treaty too harsh? Was it really a prelude to WW2 ? Margaret Mac Millan & @GerardAraud break it down 👂FULL EPISODE👉 link.chtbl.com/oAGof7OL

🎙️NEW PODCAST 🌪️The last month of French politics has been such a whirlwind, we had one question for @Mij_Europe & @FHublet: What the hell just happened? 🇫🇷 But also: Why did Le Pen lose? And is Macronism over yet? 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/St5bwJfJ

🎙️Origins of the War 🇷🇺Over the last 2 years, Putin pushed various explanations for his invasion of Ukraine: NATO, fascism, history... 🏳️ But @mkimmage sees Putin's contempt for the West as a key driver. Did he underestimate the West? 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/34k3yDko

🎙️Regulating AI 📖We asked @ianbremmer & @anubradford for their must-read AI books, here's their list: -AI Superpowers, @kaifulee -The Coming Wave, @mustafasuleyman -The Age of Spiritual Machine, Ray Kurzweil Would you add any? 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/x-s4PT2_

🎙️Regulating AI 🤖 AI has made huge leaps, opening up a pandora's box of risks! 🇺🇸 We asked @ianbremmer & @anubradford whether AI will bolster or weaken authoritarian regimes. 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/x-s4PT2_

🎙NEW PODCAST 🤖Over the last year AI has made huge leaps, opening up a pandora's box of opportunities... and risks! 🇺🇸 We asked @ianbremmer & @anubradford why and how we should regulate AI? 🎥Here's Ian listing his top AI risks 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/x-s4PT2_

🎙️AMERICA FIRST... Europe alone? ☂️Since 1945 the US has extended its security umbrella over Europe. Could Trump 2.0 upend that? 🇺🇸We asked @BrunoTertrais & @shashj how reliant Europe is on the US, and whether it is ready to stand alone 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/uVLGYHRy

🎙️NEW PODCAST 🌎For @Yascha_Mounk, few ideologies have spread as quickly in history as "wokism" in the last decade 🇫🇷@pierrevalentin argues that the French left has been the most reluctant to adopt woke concepts 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/sHMfj086

🎙️NEW PODCAST 🇺🇸"Woke" ideas have spread from American campuses to the rest of the world at an unprecedented pace. 🇪🇺We ask @Yascha_Mounk & @pierrevalentin to define wokism, and whether these ideas have made gains in Europe. 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/sHMfj086

🎙️PODCAST REMINDER🎙️ Do Europeans simply inhabit their small peninsular corner of the Eurasian landmass or are they the stewards of a unique culture that sets them apart? For our final episode of the season, @LuukvMiddelaar and Pierre Manent survey what makes us European.

🎙️Russian Illusions 🇷🇺For decades, leaders in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪 put many economic and strategic eggs in the Russian basket 🔎@SylvieKauffmann & @GuyChazan investigate how Paris & Berlin blinded themselves on the intentions of Putin's regime 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/hxsjilXP

🎙️Left-Right Divide, an Obituary? 🇪🇺For @robfordmancs there's an unexpected Brexit dividend for both of the UK's dominant parties: 🇬🇧No more EU elections and its many upsets for Tories and Labour alike! No more Green and UKIP surges! 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/eFWgTOsA

🎙️Left-Right Divide, an Obituary? 💰@robfordmancs argues that economics is no longer being the main driver of politics. 👂FULL EPISODE👉link.chtbl.com/eFWgTOsA

🎙️Left-Right Divide, an Obituary? ⬅️➡️The left-right cleavage structured European politics for decades. We ask @robfordmancs @FHublet if it still survives today? 🇪🇺Globalist-nationalist, urban-rural, regionalism: we map Europe's new cleavages 👂Listen👉link.chtbl.com/eFWgTOsA