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Lessons from 2025, outlook on 2026

Author: Ivan Krastev, Mirjana Tomić

Change may be a constant, but sometimes it accelerates so fast that norms can be destabilized. Europe is adjusting to an increasingly multipolar world order, under pressure from US retrenchment and threatened military withdrawal, Russian cyber and trench warfare, and China’s technological dominance. What should European politicians be focusing on in the forthcoming year?