• Finland's president on Europe in a Trumpian world

  • Jan 23 2025
  • Length: 25 mins
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Finland's president on Europe in a Trumpian world

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  • As Donald Trump begins his second term as US president, and Russia presses forward in Ukraine, Gideon Rachman speaks to Finland’s President Alexander Stubb about Europe’s place in the world. They also discuss the risk of strategic irrelevance in Europe, the rise of the far right, Finland’s position in Nato – and whether other European countries need to be a bit more like Finland. Clip: Reuters


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    Gideon Rachman is the chief foreign affairs commentator at the Financial Times. You can find his column here.


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    Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Lulu Smyth, Manuela Saragosa and Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen Turner


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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