Latest Foreign Desk on @Monocle_Radio. Our first dispatch from @GLOBSEC 2025, with @JanLipavsky, @oleksiireznikov, @RichardShirreff and @Zourabichvili_S.

Monocle on Sunday: Tyler Brûlé is joined by @andrew_mueller and @c_cermak to go over the week’s news. @nicmonisse with the latest from London. @pburtsoff with a Nordic update. And: Noah Horowitz and Aurelia Rauch preview this year’s Art Basel https://t.co/dBaKtPEdr3

The Foreign Desk: Reporting from the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, @andrew_mueller talks to leaders – domestic and international – about why Ukraine’s struggle for survival matters around the globe. https://t.co/3jETasiUwD

Weekday replug for latest Foreign Desk on @Monocle_Radio. Special episode recorded at the @odesaforum in Odesa, with Ukrainian MPs @GoncharenkoUa and @kiraincongress, plus @georgian_legion commander @Mamulashvili_M.

The Foreign Desk: @andrew_mueller reports from @odesaforum and Ukraine’s determination to fight on. With @GoncharenkoUa, @Mamulashvili_M, commander of @georgian_legion, and @kiraincongress https://t.co/nJ30fndOwY

The Foreign Desk: @qubadjt, the Atlantic Council’s Defne Arslan and @Georgiades_H give us the view from the Eastern Mediterranean, weighing on: Turkey’s plan, tension with Cyprus and the knock-on effects on the Middle East https://t.co/fIj9327hAQ

The Foreign Desk: Live from the @DelphiEconForum, @andrew_mueller speaks to @PrimeministerGR, @PaoloGentiloni and @meghan_hays9 about whether the transatlantic relationship still exists as Trump’s tariffs hit Europe and the future of the Democrats

Interrupting semi-serious Twitter boycott to remind that this album is really good, and you should listen to it.

The Foreign Desk Explainer: As the US government scrambles to explain the inclusion of @JeffreyGoldberg in a group chat discussing war plans, @andrew_mueller considers just how serious a security breach this is

The Monocle Daily: @andrew_mueller is joined in Paris by @MicheleBarbero and Florence Martin-Kessler of Live Magazine to discuss the EU leaders summit, France’s never-ending pensions debate and the World Happiness Report 2025 https://t.co/kr1AyMxqxh

The Foreign Desk Explainer: following Rwanda’s expulsion of Belgium’s diplomats this week, @andrew_mueller explains the European nation’s troubled history of involvement in Rwanda and the DRC.

What We Learned: @Andrew_Mueller looks back at this week’s news, including Trump’s Tesla sales pitch, Canada’s annexation and a Eurovision controversy. https://t.co/VhkYNm4dwM

The Foreign Desk: @GLandsbergis, @KerstiKaljulaid and other Baltic leaders face the existential question: what happens if Russia strikes? Is Nato’s Article 5 the unassailable security that it used to be? https://t.co/9fIJpFrBHG

The Big Interview: @bobmouldmusic of Hüsker Dü and Sugar joins @andrew_mueller to talk about his new solo album ‘Here We Go Crazy’, being outed as a gay man in the 1990s and Donald Trump’s WWE-style politics https://t.co/knXBzTGmDs

The Monocle Daily: @VinnyMcAv and @theviralpapers discuss the Ukraine ceasefire talks as the US puts pressure on Russia to accept the deal. Plus: the EU’s tougher stance on migration, France’s new high-speed trains and @andrew_mueller’s “On This Day”

The Foreign Desk Explainer: Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has been arrested and sent to The Hague, facing charges for crimes against humanity. @andrew_mueller explains the popularity of the ex-president’s bloody ‘war on drugs’

McCain Institute’s @EvelynNFarkas on @monocle_radio’s The Foreign Desk: “Europe is our largest economic, political, and military partner, and therefore we have to stand united against the autocrats and against Russia and China.” Listen here:

The Foreign Desk: why has the US tilted away from Europe? @andrew_mueller is joined by @general_ben, @EvelynNFarkas, @kvolker, Jeremy Bash and @TimothyDSnyder to discuss the new foreign-policy landscape

The Monocle Daily: we unpack Trump’s decision to delay tariffs on Mexico. Then: a Paris Fashion week update and @katehutchinson on King Charles III’s Apple Music show and the soft power of the royals. Then: @andrew_mueller’s ‘What we Learned’

What We Learned: @Andrew_Mueller looks back at this week’s news, including the rebirth of the woolly mammoth, the White House spat between JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelensky, and LGBT+ policies in Lesotho https://t.co/P1UbSGRRxy