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Goodbye, 2025! It wasn't a pleasure meeting you.

2025-12-31 19:17:58Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA POLITICO.EU
Goodbye, 2025! It wasn't a pleasure meeting you.
Goodbye, 2025! It wasn't a pleasure meeting you.

Paul Dallison and Giulia Polonia - Politico

Thanks for nothing, 2025. It was a year in which most of us would have liked to be either Suni Williams or Butch Wilmore.

Williams and Wilmore were astronauts who were supposed to stay in space for about 10 days, but ended up staying for almost 10 months, not returning to Earth until March of this year and losing almost three months of this misery.

Goodbye, 2025! It wasn't a pleasure meeting you.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

"Welcome back, guys. There's good news and bad news: the good news is that you're back safe and sound; the bad news is that Kamala Harris didn't win the election."

The winner of the election, Donald Trump, certainly dominated the news agenda in the same way that a bear would dominate the honey sector if let loose in a supermarket.

He imposed hastily conceived tariffs on everything and everyone, including uninhabited islands near Antarctica.

And he had a spectacular altercation with Elon Musk, who, like Lazarus, flew too close to the bright sun.

In Europe, it has been a strange year.

Germany replaced Captain Charisma Olaf Scholz with Friedrich Merz, who always looks like he's just taken over the parking spot at the supermarket, even though he's been waiting patiently for a long time.

France and Italy reversed roles: the latter became a model of stability, while the former became a problematic case where so many people became prime ministers that, at the time of writing, Eric Cantona is the holder of that post.

In Brussels, Ursula von der Leyen has been almost as popular as an unwanted invasive operation and survived not one but three confidence votes in the European Parliament, which today leans so far to the right that it risks being overturned.

But there have also been some success stories.

The new pope seems like a good man, which means the Catholic Church has broken the recent "good pope/bad pope" cycle.

And António Costa is doing a much better job as president of the European Council – a role that, from what we understand, involves ordering the right amount of sparkling water for meetings – than Charles Michel.

So here we are: heading to the sunlit heights of 2026. It couldn't be worse, right?

Who has been climbing?

I kissed a prime minister: In the immortal words of Avril Lavigne: He was a prime minister, she was a pop star – could it get any clearer?

Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry are officially in a relationship. It turns out all it takes for a power couple to flourish is an awkward space tourism stunt and a resignation in disgrace. There's hope for everyone, people.

Goodbye, 2025! It wasn't a pleasure meeting you.
Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry

The survivor: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen managed to survive a total of three no-confidence motions this year. Far-right and far-left parties tried their luck, proving that it's not about ideology — they just don't like it. And people say society is hopelessly divided.

Who has been falling?

US-EU relations:

Remember when the US really liked the EU? Vice President JD Vance doesn't. At the Munich Security Conference, he lashed out at European democracies, insisting that their biggest threat is not Russia, but their own culture wars. With friends like that...

Royal titles:

The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, is no more. He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Which, from a middle name perspective, is punishment enough. His older brother, Charlie, also had his public funding cut off. If Mountbatten ever needs work, there's always Pizza Express.

Ironic award for brilliant use of political chaos in a democracy

What a year it has been for Marine Le Pen and French politics, which gave Italy a rare year off from being the chaotic mascot of Europe.

The leader of the far-right National Rally party was banned from running for public office for five years after a scandal involving fictitious jobs in the European Parliament in March.

In theory, that would rule her out of the 2027 presidential race – assuming we still have a functioning democracy by then. Her career should have ended there.

But Marine is not one to give up, especially when her right-hand man, Barbie Bardella, waits – a little too eagerly – backstage to take over.

All she needed was for the French electorate to be distracted by fresher scandals and let her quietly plan her comeback.

And here it comes: President Emmanuel Macron and a case study in the “confident, heterosexual, white man, on the verge of delusion” syndrome.

He consumed prime ministers faster than Samantha Jones changed lovers, always looking surprised when one left.

It's almost funny that he never considered the possibility that he himself might be the problem. Perhaps the time has come for a female president to bring stability to France: look at Italy and its absolutely-not-neo-fascist government, for example. Ah, how the tables have turned.

Goodbye, 2025! It wasn't a pleasure meeting you.

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