Munich insecurity conference: a re-ordering begins
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The Economist
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Backing away from European security guarantees and seeking mineral rights in Ukraine as recompense for military aid: at the Munich Security Conference the Trump administration made its convention-trashing, transactional nature clear. What Europe will or even can do is not so obvious. And a tribute to Donald Shoup, whose studies on keeping cars moving focused on where they parked (17:45).
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| 1:26.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:29.4 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:31.2 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:40.0 | Donald Shoup rode a bicycle, but his obsession was traffic, |
| 1:44.6 | specifically how to make cities more efficient by having the right parking spaces and ways to charge for them. |
| 1:50.8 | Our obituaries editor remembers a man who got cities moving. |
| 1:59.0 | Before that, though, we're trying to parse a pile of news from a bewildering conference over the weekend. |
| 2:27.3 | Thank you. A BOR A BUNESPRIDENT. A BUNESPERSEN, |
| 2:29.3 | Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear friend, |
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