Stephen Carroll

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Hello, I'm Stephen Carroll.

I'm in Brussels, where many of Europe's biggest decisions get made.

We're up early every weekday, keeping an eye on what's happening across Europe and around the world.

From Brussels, I'm following the politics, policy and the people shaping the European Union right now.

We've got reporters across Europe and around the globe feeding in as stories break.

It's smart, calm and to the point.

You can find new episodes of the Bloomberg Daybreak Europe podcast by 7am in Dublin or 8am in Brussels, Berlin and Paris.

As you can see, the sun is set on what has been the third day of this extraordinary war, a war that appears to be widening and gulfing not just the Middle East now, but even lapping up against southern Europe, with Cyprus saying that a British air base on its soil was apparently targeted by a Hezbollah drone, Hezbollah being the Lebanese militia ally of Iran.

In fact, an ally of Iran in Lebanon, which opened a front from Lebanon,

with Israel reopened that front overnight.

And now the Israelis are saying they're bombing targets in Lebanon apace as they continue their bombing of Iran alongside U.S.

forces.

So we have several fronts opening up.

A number of Gulf Arab countries have also found themselves in the firing line being struck.

by Iranian missiles and drones, and not just US bases on their turf, but also hotels and the like.

This is imposing a good deal of economic pain on the region, and it would appear that what the Iranian regime is trying to do, even though it's massively outgunned by its enemies, is to wait out

this campaign in the hope that the pain and indeed the patience of the American public that apparently disapproves of this by quite a margin already will wear thin and some members of the Iranian regime might be able to survive.