J.D. Vance shakes things up in Europe

THIS WEEK’S cover package in Britain and Europe looks at a nightmare week for the transatlantic alliance. A series of extraordinary events began with a blistering speech in Munich by J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, in which he excoriated what he saw as unwarranted constraints on free speech in Europe, alongside a failure to deal with mass migration and misguided attempts to marginalise populist parties. Our editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, wrote about Mr Vance’s speech and its implications in the Café Europa newsletter. (If you subscribe to The Economist, you can receive it every week in your inbox.)