Affairs
Amsterdam’s rebel mayor on sex, drugs and tourists
Femke Halsema, the Dutch capital’s first female mayor, doesn’t shy away from radical yet rational policymaking. Here she tells us how she aims to take drug distribution out of criminal hands and cut overtourism.
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Brave new world
From the future of city living to how smaller states can make themselves heard, three solutions-focused professionals tell us how they are rethinking the way we live.
Centre stage
Now well into his second term in office, Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, tells us about re-establishing moderate, modernising politics in the country and how Athens can wield influence in Europe and beyond.
In-flight service
As the need for nimbler, more agile air forces grows, the US and its allies are perfecting the art of mid-air refuelling.
The Agenda: Comment
Petri Burtsoff on the body helping the West to react to hybrid warfare – and why a firmer response is needed.
Making tracks
By plane, train and automobile, we take in the shifting allegiances within the Caucasus’s former-Soviet states.
The Agenda: Comment
Is green space bad? Des Fitzgerald explains how urban parks were designed to make us factory-ready – and why it’s not so different today.
Ready and waiting
Lithuania might be small but this plucky Baltic nation’s proximity to Russia means that it is ramping up its military might. Monocle meets its newest conscripts.
Touch and go
How do America’s first responders train for the worst natural – or manmade – disasters? We pull on a hazmat suit to find out.
Blue brigade
A new contingent of French riot police is armed, trained and controversial. Will they be called on when the Olympics roll into town?
The Agenda
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