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    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.
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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU and Canada preparing show of friendship at joint summit Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Austria’s foreign minister calls for elections in Ukraine

      Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Treat Bosnia on par with Ukraine over accession talks, Austria tells EU

      Foreign minister warns Brussels not to look at Balkans ‘with a magnifying glass’ and at Kyiv ‘with rose-tinted glasses’

      Alexander Schallenberg
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Europe trudges ahead with beefing up its security and defence order Premium content

      EU nations will need to step up to the plate in arming Kyiv as US support becomes less fulsome

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alongside Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine claims significant advance in counteroffensive against Russia

      Kyiv’s forces establish fortified bridgeheads on left bank of the Dnipro in Russian-occupied Kherson

      Ukainian marines on a small boat at the Dnipro river
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Zelenskyy calls for discipline as cracks emerge in Kyiv’s unity

      Ukrainian president fires head of special forces and rebukes top commander who said war with Russia was at a ‘stalemate’

      Ukrainian soldiers in the Bakhmut district of Ukraine
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      France and Netherlands draw up plans to ship aid to Gaza

      Scheme aims to ease dire humanitarian situation but would require pauses in fighting

      Smoke rises from anchored boats
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Ferrexpo PLC
      Ferrexpo chair urges Kyiv to spare miner in anti-oligarch campaign

      UK-listed group caught in Ukrainian authorities’ efforts to recover assets from billionaire founder Kostyantin Zhevago

      A Ferrexpo iron ore mine in Ukraine
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Instant InsightInstant Insight
      Poland’s democratic health appears better than many feared

      Despite the best efforts of PiS, this weekend’s election looks set to give Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform a route to power

      Donald Tusk celebrating exit poll results during Poland’s parliamentary election on Sunday night
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      ‘Bottom of barrel’: Ukraine’s counteroffensive at risk from US aid delays

      Republican-led opposition to Kyiv’s next funding package could further hamper counteroffensive

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens as Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo speaks
    • Saturday, 7 October, 2023
      Paris
      Bedbug horror: coming to a cinema near you

      ‘La presse anglophone’ has seized on the damage to Paris’s glossy reputation as the pest infestation takes hold

      Close up of the thorax and head of a bedbug
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      News in-depthPoland
      Germany becomes scapegoat in Poland’s bitter election campaign

      Anti-German rhetoric is aimed at discrediting Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk

      A montage of Jaroslaw Kaczyński, Donald Tusk and the German and Polish flags
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Global InsightUkrainian politics
      Ukraine’s democracy is facing a wartime election test

      Zelenskyy has hinted presidential vote may still be possible next year, alarming civil society groups

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds his voting paper in his right hand above the ballot box as he casts his vote
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      The hard lessons from Ukraine’s summer offensive

      The country’s military is enjoying some success but it will be slow-going and requires allies to increase ammunition supplies

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Ukrainian politics
      Ukraine open to minority rights concessions in quest to join EU

      Kyiv prepared to change rules on languages used in schools to unlock accession talks

      Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Olga Stefanishyna
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Biden edges closer to decision on supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles

      Washington fears striking Russian territory risks escalating the conflict

      A missile being fired
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Musk gave biographer Ukrainian official’s private messages without permission

      Mykhailo Fedorov says disclosure of exchange about military access to Starlink internet service ‘not pretty’

      Elon Musk and Walter Isaacson on a stage
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine seeks French help in wooing global south

      Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba in Paris to counter Russia’s influence on countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America

      Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, left, shakes hands with Catherine Colonna, France’s foreign minister
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine27 min
      Ukraine tech sector goes to war | FT Film

      How start-ups help the war effort with cheap drones and AI-powered missile detection

      FT Film: Ukraine's tech war
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Nato
      Sweden poised to strengthen Nato’s northern defences

      Membership of alliance marks historic shift for non-aligned country, precipitated by Russia’s war against Ukraine

      Swedish soldiers pose for a photo as troops from Poland, the US, France and Sweden take part in a military exercise in Poland
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US and Germany resist pressure to advance Ukraine’s Nato bid

      Fraught negotiations on membership application threaten to expose divisions at Vilnius summit

      Nato and Ukraine flags fly in Vilnius
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      InterviewWar in Ukraine
      Ukraine urges US to follow EU’s four-year funding pledge

      Finance minister Serhii Marchenko says Brussels’ €50bn package is a ‘good signal’ for G7 nations

      Serhiy Marchenko
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Instant InsightFrench society
      Riots underscore depth of France’s social tensions

      The death of a teenager at the hands of the police presents Emmanuel Macron with a new challenge

      A protester throws an object at police in Nanterre. The latest protests demonstrate that France’s impoverished, ethnically-mixed neighbourhoods remain a powder keg
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Ukraine will continue to dominate the EU leaders’ summit Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Denmark gives up its bid for the Nato secretary-general’s job

      European Council President Charles Michel, right, greets Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas prior to a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      EU enlargement
      EU should not ‘lower the bar’ to take in Ukraine, says Denmark

      Foreign minister warns bloc risks ‘importing instability’ if it relaxes standards on democracy and corruption

      Lars Løkke Rasmussen
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