An election supercycle could push Europe to the right

The IMF is warning that the world’s leading economies need to take “urgent” action to rebuild their public finances, Pakistan is stuck in a tricky place as its ally Saudi Arabia fights off the Houthis, and Mark Zuckerberg says Meta has caught up with rivals at the “frontier” of AI. Plus, a number of elections in Europe could fundamentally shift the EU, and the UK has imposed new sanctions on Iran over a security incident at a RAF base.

Mentioned in this podcast:

Top economies heading for biggest budget deficits since Covid, IMF warns

Pakistan’s hard choice on Saudi Arabia’s war

Riyadh defiant as Houthis launch new missile strikes on Saudi Arabia

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta has reached AI ‘frontier’

The election supercycle set to drag Europe right

UK imposes new sanctions on Iran over RAF Fairford incident

India’s Narendra Modi faces ‘bitter pill’ as Cockroach protests mount

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