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What would it take for a European reset to succeed?
Slow but steady underperformance may no longer be an option – its choices are abject failure or renewal
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Published Tue, Jan 27, 2026 · 07:40 PM
EUROPE is apparently waking up to its new place in the world.
Disdained, insulted and bullied by its former American protector, its leaders are asking where they go from here. Is their future one of accelerating decline – a new “age of humiliation”, as my colleague Adrian Wooldridge argues? Or might recent events spur a radical and long-overdue reset?
That prompts another question: What exactly would a successful reset require?
