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The Seine’s reopening marks a watershed moment for Paris’s civic renewal
For the first time in more than a century, Parisians have been allowed to swim in the Seine. Three outdoor bathing areas opened to the public this weekend amid a searing heatwave, though authorities…
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In exactly two years’ time, Italians will bask in the alpenglow of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. If all goes well, organisers will clink their aperitivo glasses at the top of a rebuilt Eugenio…
The diplomacy agenda: A Q&A with Lithuania’s prime minister Ingrida Simonyte
Plus: Italy’s charm offensive in Africa and the pitfalls of a long-standing US democratic scheme
New US legislation aimed at reducing social media addiction
Alexis Self on the brave souls determined to break children’s digital fixations. Ready for the fight?
Three solutions-focused professionals tell us how they are rethinking the way we live
From the future of city living to how smaller states can make themselves heard, a landscape architect, a Polish journalist and a former president of Armenia share their thoughts.
Interview: Kyriakos Mitsotakis on his hopes for Athens
Now well into his second term in office, Greece’s prime minister tells us about re-establishing moderate, modernising politics in the country and how Athens can wield influence in Europe and beyond.
Exercise Red Flag: A multinational aerial combat training designed to simulate the ‘chaos of combat’
As the need for nimbler, more agile air forces grows, the US and its allies are perfecting the art of mid-air refuelling.
Unarmed and dangerous: Evaluating the effectiveness of Hybrid COE
Petri Burtsoff on the body helping the West to react to hybrid warfare – and why a firmer response is needed.
How Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are laying down tracks for the future with the BTK railway
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.
