2025-02-17
24 分钟THE Economist.
Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Donald Shoup rode a bicycle, but his obsession was traffic, specifically how to make cities more efficient by having the right parking spaces and ways to charge for them.
Our obituaries editor remembers a man who got cities moving.
Before that, though, we're trying to parse a pile of news from a bewildering conference over the weekend.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear friend, welcome to this year's Munich Security Conference.
Before we start, for presidents and prime ministers, defense secretaries and spy chiefs, the Munich Security Conference is a huge annual fixture since the 1960s.
This is where a lot of Western diplomacy gets done.
Business deals get struck.
During the coming days, we have to once again deal with Putin's war against Ukraine.
I warmly welcome the Ukrainian delegation, but.
The meeting doesn't often make for big global headlines.
This year, though, this year was a news gusher on defense cooperation, on Ukraine negotiations, on flying the flag for Europe's hard right.
The Trump administration threw into question what Munich types had for decades taken for granted.
And as ever, the question is how seriously or literally to take it all.
Our editor in chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and our defense editor, Shashank Joshi, are just back from the conference.
Zanny Shashank, hi.
Thanks very much for making the time today.