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26 March 2025

As US vice president JD Vance announces that he will join his wife’s trip to a US army base in Greenland, we unpack what message this sends to the arctic territory and gauge Denmark’s reaction. Also in the programme: we…

26 March 2025

Germany’s parliament has convened for the first time since February’s elections but the country is still waiting for a new governing coalition. Then: will former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro face trial? Plus: why a Cuban…

25 March 2025

As the fallout from the US security group-chat leak continues, Burcu Ozcelik and Oscar Guardiola-Riviera join Andrew Mueller to discuss how well the damage control is going. Plus: Ukraine and Russia agree to a ceasefire in…

25 March 2025

The world reacts to a major security breach after the White House accidentally shared highly sensitive military plans through a group chat, which included an ‘Atlantic’ journalist. Our security correspondent, Gorana Grgić…

25 March 2025

The latest from Istanbul following a crackdown on protests against the arrest of the main opposition leader. Then: residents of Paris make a landmark decision that could transform how people move through the city’s historic…

24 March 2025

As the world waits with bated breath about what progress is being made on a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire, Charles Hecker joins Andrew Mueller to discuss. Then: panellists Yossi Mekelberg and Giorgia Scaturro join to discuss the…

24 March 2025

Protests continue in Turkey following the arrest of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival and Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu. We get the latest from Ruth Michaelson, who reports the nation’s capital. Also on the…

24 March 2025

Teams from both Kyiv and Moscow are back in Saudi Arabia for separate talks with the US. Meanwhile, Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, calls a snap general election for a month’s time and Zürich narrowly approves a…

23 March 2025

We celebrate the opening of our new shop and café on Rue Bachaumont in Paris. Then: our interview with the mayor of San Francisco and we speak with the editor of Australian staple ‘Gourmet Traveller’. 

22 March 2025

The unloading of Bashar al-Assad in December was a hopeful moment for Syria. The installation of his successor, jihadist commander Ahmed al-Sharaa, was a more nervous one. We discuss the mood among civilians with journalist…

21 March 2025

We get the latest from Heathrow with Dr Sally Leivesley. Then: we cross from Paris with our bureau chief, Simon Bouvier, and journalist Daphnée Denis, to London with editor Josh Fehnert and Zürich with Désirée Bandli.

21 March 2025

As Germany’s upper house of parliament approves a constitutional change to allow a huge increase in spending for the country’s defence and infrastructure needs, Monocle’s senior news editor, Chris Cermak, joins Emma Nelson…

21 March 2025

Europe’s response to the plan for peacekeepers in Ukraine and developments surrounding the potential ceasefire with Russia. Then: the International Olympic Committee votes in a new president and the South Pacific looks to…

20 March 2025

We report from San Francisco as Monocle’s Christopher Lord speaks with some of the key players and devotees of the city’s downtown – an area that has most keenly felt the effects of the post-pandemic lull. The city’s mayor…

20 March 2025

We’re live from our Paris studio with panellists Michele Barbero and Florence Martin-Kessler to discuss the EU’s leaders summit in Brussels, why the pension debate in France will never go away and why King Charles III is…