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Goodbye pandemic, hello war.
Europe was not fully recovered from the consequences of COVID-19 when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in a spike in refugees, surging energy prices, rising inflation and an increasing threat of a recession.
Also in 2022, Giorgia Meloni became Italy’s first female and far-right prime minister, while in the U.K., Lizz Truss was the shortest-serving PM in the country.
From record temperatures to an increasingly crowded planet, here are the figures behind the topics that defined the year.
