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Klaas Knot: Gloom and doom on Europe's future is overblown

Editor's note: Klaas Knot and Olaf Sleijpen visited Ukraine as part of a Dutch delegation invited by the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pishnyy. The gloom and doom on Europe's future is overblown, says the frontrunner to succeed Christine Lagarde as head of the European Central Bank — but still, says Klaas Knot, the continent has unfinished business if it wants to reach its potential. Speaking in Kyiv at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in a double interview with the curren

Editorial: Trump’s theater and Europe’s fear could bring 4 more years of war

The year is 2030. With spring around the corner, Ukraine has just endured the toughest winter of the war yet. It was Russia’s eighth winter campaign against the country’s energy infrastructure. Ukraine’s air defenses have improved. Its grid has grown more resilient. But Russia’s weapons are deadlier, its drone swarms larger, its tactics more adaptive — inflicting severe damage and forcing millions to live in darkness. Another U.S. administration has come and gone after promising to end the war

Ukrainian rescuers following a Russian air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 28, 2025.
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