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              Ben Hall

              Europe Editor

              Ben Hall is Europe editor of the FT, writing interviews, analysis and comment and managing the European network of correspondents. He has worked at the FT since 2000. He was previously world news editor, Europe news editor, Paris correspondent, UK political correspondent, deputy comment editor and a leader writer.
              Email Ben Hall @hallbenjamin  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                The Big Read
                Ukraine’s waiting game for Trump

                Kyiv and its European allies believe they have a chance to shape the incoming president’s plan to end the war. But they are divided over what to propose

                People walk between buildings badly damaged by a Russian missile strike i Kyiv
              • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
                EU defence
                Denmark to revamp defence plan agreed just 8 months ago

                Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen admits April coalition deal will have to be changed

                Mette Frederiksen
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                News in-depthFrançois Bayrou
                ‘The original centrist’: France’s new prime minister seizes his moment

                An early Macron ally and admirer of Henri IV, François Bayrou will have to navigate parliamentary turmoil

                Francois Bayrou, France’s incoming prime ministe
              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                News in-depthFrench politics
                Le Pen turns screws on Barnier in French budget showdown

                Far-right leader believes brinkmanship will pay political dividends

                montage of Michel Barnier and Marine Le Pen
              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                French economy
                Is France heading for a Greek-style debt crisis?

                Investors have been rattled by political paralysis and parlous public finances

                Montage of charts and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
              • Monday, 25 November, 2024
                The Big Read
                Can Europe defend itself without America?

                The continent will have to spend more as Trump refocuses policy elsewhere. But replacing US military heft will not be easy

                A Polish soldier holds a Nato flag during a ceremony in Warsaw on March 12 commemorating the 25th anniversary of Poland joining Nato. The photo is superimposed on the background of a faded US flag
              • Friday, 22 November, 2024
                Global InsightWar in Ukraine
                Putin climbs escalatory ladder with missile experiment

                Strike appears to be an elaborately staged attempt to show Russia will outbid the west over Ukraine

                Ukrainian rescue workers put out a fire on a building damaged by a Russian strike on Dnipro, UKraine
              • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                European troops in Ukraine would secure Trump peace deal, says Estonia

                Kyiv’s allies consider options on how to guarantee country’s security in any accord brokered by US president

                Margus Tsahkna, Estonia’s foreign minister
              • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
                Europe Express
                Trump ushers in Europe’s high-stakes moment to defend Ukraine Premium content

                US may not have patience to wait for Kyiv’s fortunes to improve before seeking negotiated settlement

                Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives for the European Political Community summit in Budapest, Hungary earlier this month
              • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
                Instant InsightGerman politics
                The end of Germany’s dysfunctional coalition offers Europe new hope

                Paralysis in Berlin is a big reason the EU is ill-prepared for Donald Trump’s return

                Close-up of Olaf Scholz
              • Monday, 28 October, 2024
                News in-depthGeorgia
                Georgian opposition dismayed by western response to ‘stolen’ election

                Pro-European protest fills streets of Tbilisi denouncing alleged vote fraud

                Supporters of pro-EU opposition parties in Georgia protest against ‘election fraud’ on Monday
              • Monday, 28 October, 2024
                FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
                Georgia’s disputed election

                Pivotal election widely seen as a choice between a future in Europe or alignment with Moscow

              • Friday, 25 October, 2024
                Europe Express
                Why Georgia’s EU future is on the ballot in historic parliament vote Premium content

                Also in this newsletter: Russian migrant-smuggling ring busted

                Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili
              • Friday, 25 October, 2024
                The Big Read
                Putin’s battle to keep Georgia in Russia’s orbit

                The country is holding elections that could decide whether it tilts towards Moscow or Brussels. Observers fear that violence may follow

                Montage of images with Bidzina Ivanishvili waving in the foreground against a background of St Basil’s in Moscow, a map of Georgia, the cross from the Georgian flag and protesters
              • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
                Georgia
                Georgian president says pro-Russia ruling party ‘rigging’ election

                Salome Zourabichvili urges voters to choose ‘between a European future and a Russian past’

                Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili delivers a speech
              • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
                Europe Express
                Ukraine, Nato membership and the West Germany model Premium content

                Security guarantees will have to underpin any peace deal where Russia retains control of Ukrainian land

                Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, October 3 2024
              • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
                The Big Read
                Ukraine faces its darkest hour

                Returning home from the US, Zelenskyy faces Russian advances, an exhausted society and the prospect of winter energy shortages

                Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Pennsylvania to visit an ammunition plant
              • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
                Instant InsightFPO Freedom Party Austria
                Austrians join Europe’s far-right march

                The FPÖ’s victory suggests it is no longer necessary to detoxify your brand to win

                Herbert Kickl, centre, celebrates at one of the final FPÖ party rallies in Vienna ahead of the election
              • Friday, 27 September, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Trump promises quick end to Ukraine war after meeting Zelenskyy

                Former US president repeats push for peace talks with Russia

                Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet at Trump Tower in New York
              • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Zelenskyy to meet Trump following Republican backlash over US trip

                Former US president’s criticism of Ukrainian leader’s lobbying efforts triggers recriminations in Kyiv

                Side by side photo of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
              • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
                Europe Express
                Will Mario Draghi’s masterplan get the momentum it needs? Premium content

                The former Italian prime minister believes the bloc is facing an existential challenge

                Mario Draghi
              • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
                Europe Express
                Germans reel from an uncomfortable week politically and economically Premium content

                Good results for the far-right AfD in regional elections came as VW dealt a blow to manufacturing jobs

                Protesters in Weimar gathered on Monday to demonstrate against the rise of the far right in Germany
              • Friday, 6 September, 2024
                News in-depthFrench politics
                Michel Barnier lands to fix ‘ungovernable’ France

                With parliament bitterly divided, the new French premier faces a daunting challenge to find a working majority

                Emmanuel Macron and Michel Barnier
              • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
                ExplainerWar in Ukraine
                Why Ukraine’s allies are divided over deep strikes into Russia

                UK has pressed US to back Kyiv’s use of Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory

                FT montage of illustrations showing missiles and drones
              • Monday, 26 August, 2024
                Nuclear proliferation
                Global race for nuclear weapons at record high, warns UN

                Non-proliferation regime under greatest pressure since end of cold war, says Rafael Grossi

                Test fire of an intercontinental ballistic missile in North Korea
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