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Podcast: Novara Media
Episode: Downstream: Europe’s Political Elite Are Completely Finished w/ Philip Pilkington
Description: For almost six centuries Europe has been at the centre of world affairs.
While the days of Empire are long gone, over the last several decades the importance and comparative wealth of Europe has declined at an extraordinary pace. Indeed for many countries, from Britain to Germany and Greece, living standards have stagnated or even declined.
Now, in what seem like the final months of the war in Ukraine, Europe can no longer rely on security guarantees made by the United States. Technologically dependent on a superpower across the Atlantic, the countries of Europe are...