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Europe’s economy will be challenged by inward-looking America, competitive China, aggressive Russia—and a surging hard right that wants to limit immigration
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At best, the continent should expect stagnation, at worst a bond-market rout

Yet China may be underestimating Europe’s willingness to push back

It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform

The old continent must play to its strengths as a large market with stable rules

But with America now an unreliable ally, will it be enough to counter Russia?

It’s time the continent’s more ambitious nations left the rest behind, writes Ulrike Malmendier