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Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, and you're listening to Politics from the New Statesman. Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes and you're listening to Politics from the New Statesman.

As 2025 is welcomed across the world, we wanted to catch up with some of our international

experts to find out what's in store for the year ahead.

To do this, I'm joined by the New Statesman Senior Editor Katie

Stalard, down the line from Washington, D.C., and by our contributor, Wolfgang Munchal.

Hello.

Hello.

Now, I barely know where to start. There is a lot to talk about, to put it mildly.

But how about something simple? If you could pick one word to describe

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