We’ll be right over here: Europe’s populists sour on Trump
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Many of the continent’s populist-right leaders once saw President Donald Trump as an example-setting fellow traveller. But his actions and policies on Venezuela, Greenland and Canada have them pulling back. Dating apps from the West failed to make inroads in India; now the country has its own crop of them. And scientific spying in the jungle reveals where predators hunt.
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:16.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:23.6 | When Western dating apps tried to woo India, they crashed and burned. |
| 0:28.6 | Now a raft of homegrown matchmakers hope they can help romances blossom online. |
| 0:35.6 | And if you're a hungry predator on the savannah, where do you look for dinner? |
| 0:41.0 | Wherever, there's water. |
| 0:42.7 | But what if you're in the jungle where it's water, water, water everywhere? |
| 0:46.2 | Scientists now have a better answer about popular dining spots. |
| 1:02.8 | Okay. First up, though. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm astoned at this title, that those who who are the most vigilant |
| 1:12.6 | face of the ingerance |
| 1:13.6 | This European political leader is |
| 1:15.6 | speaking of how astonished he is |
| 1:17.6 | that those who claim to be the most vigilant |
| 1:20.6 | against foreign interference |
| 1:22.6 | are engaged in blatant interference |
| 1:25.6 | with the affairs of a nation-state. |
| 1:28.2 | In the love of President Trump, |
| 1:29.6 | this intervention opens the way to the interests economic |
| 1:31.9 | of companies petroliar American. |
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