We’re live from our Paris studio with panellists Michele Barbero and Florence Martin-Kessler to discuss the EU’s leaders summit in Brussels, why the pension debate in France will never go away and why King Charles III is losing representation on the Australian five-dollar bill. Plus: who’s happy and who’s jealous in the World Happiness Report 2025.

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