{"id":206050,"date":"2025-12-27T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/206050\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:00:08","slug":"politicos-most-read-stories-of-2025-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/206050\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICO\u2019s most-read stories of 2025 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the second was the\u00a0war in Ukraine, which dragged\u00a0into\u00a0its\u00a0fourth, bloody\u00a0year\u00a0and\u00a0\u2014\u00a0together\u00a0with Trump\u2019s return\u00a0to the White House\u00a0\u2014\u00a0forced Europe\u2019s\u00a0leaders to make hard choices about\u00a0the\u00a0EU\u2019s\u00a0security, agency\u00a0and\u00a0destiny.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0collision of\u00a0the two, a\u00a0paradigm-shattering American president,\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0grim\u00a0reality\u00a0on Ukraine\u2019s battlefield dominated\u00a0the year\u2019s\u00a0news.\u00a0And\u00a0POLITICO\u00a0was there for\u00a0every\u00a0consequential speech, summit,\u00a0and\u00a0Oval Office\u00a0spat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Without further ado, here\u00a0are our 20 most-read stories of 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

20. Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia<\/p>\n

As the Kremlin launched a wave of hybrid attacks against EU member countries, from menacing fighter jet incursions to mysterious drone sightings, POLITICO asked: What would it take for Europe to finally hit back?<\/p>\n

Read the story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And the second was the\u00a0war in Ukraine, which dragged\u00a0into\u00a0its\u00a0fourth, bloody\u00a0year\u00a0and\u00a0\u2014\u00a0together\u00a0with Trump\u2019s return\u00a0to the White House\u00a0\u2014\u00a0forced Europe\u2019s\u00a0leaders to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,1435,42,43,8739,7319,40,38,41,39,24704,2637,6677,13580],"class_list":["post-206050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-pope-francis","tag-religion","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s-politics","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}