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    • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
      EU foreign policy
      Israel in diplomatic dispute with Spain and Belgium over Gaza bombardment

      Comments from leaders Pedro Sánchez and Alexander De Croo at Rafah condemned by foreign minister Eli Cohen

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      Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, left, and Belgian premier Alexander de Croo speak at the Rafah crossing into Egypt from the Gaza Strip, Egypt
    • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Populists seek dividends from a climate change backlash

      Hard-right parties make gains in Europe by exploiting fears that incomes and ways of life are under threat

      Defaced election campaign posters in Kaufbeuren for Germany’s Green Party. The red lettering reads ‘AFD’, the name of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, ahead of the regional election in Bavaria last month
    • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
      Harry Wallop
      Porch pirates: how to stop a boom in doorstep delinquency

      Just in time for Christmas, a festive plague of thieves is targeting online shopping deliveries

      A posed photograph of a man stealing an Amazon package with other items sitting on a front door step
    • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
      Martin Allen Morales
      We need imagination to realise the good, not just stave off the bad

      Harnessed positively, leaps in thinking can help societies evolve to meet threats and make discoveries

      Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida
    • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
      News in-depthSport
      England’s lawn tennis clubs gripped by padel fever

      Venerable institutions introduce waiting lists for court space as the new game takes hold across the country

      Members of Sundridge Park Club in south London playing padel
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      British Museum
      Keir Starmer open to a deal on Elgin Marbles

      Labour leader and Sunak to separately discuss with Greek PM part of Parthenon sculptures being returned to Athens

      The Parthenon galleries at the British Museum, which hold the statues formerly known as the Elgin Marbles
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      EU economy
      Brussels approves Italy’s changes to multibillion EU spending plan

      Agreement is a boost for Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government

      Giorgia Meloni, prime minister of Italy
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Geert Wilders’ victory is a warning for Europe

      Success of the far right in the Netherlands will embolden populists elsewhere

      An election poster for Geert Wilders
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Stuart Kirk
      Fear not — equity is far from cancelled

      The angst over supposed ‘de-equitisation’ is misplaced

      A man take a selfie with an iPhone in front of a giant Apple logo
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      Horticulture has a growing problem

      The British sector is beset by challenges, as a recent report by a House of Lords committee makes clear

      A garden centre with plants outside and canopies overhead
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Netherlands politics
      Geert Wilders faces early setback in Dutch coalition talks

      Business community warns prolonged instability could scare off investors

      Geert Wilders and Dilan Yeşilgöz
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      UK politics
      UK should do a ‘bit extra’ to restore Stormont, says former N Ireland leader

      Peter Robinson says Westminster needs to legislate for a ‘reassertion of the sovereignty of the UK’

      Peter Robinson, the former first minister and Democratic Unionist Party leader,
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Ireland
      Ireland pledges to crack down on far-right groups after riot

      Violence incited by rumours that man who stabbed 3 children was an immigrant

      Protesters vandalise a police vehicle before setting it on fire during a riot in Dublin
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Do Kwon
      Montenegro court clears crypto chief Do Kwon for extradition

      Justice ministry to decide whether developer behind TerraUSD token will be sent to US or South Korea

      Do Kwon, centre, being taken to court in Podgorica, Montenegro on March 24 2023
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Nissan Motor Co Ltd
      Nissan to lead £2bn electric-car investment in Sunderland plant

      Deal would turn facility into all-EV factory as Japanese group transitions models to green energy

      Nissan’s Qashqai car in a Nissan factory in Sunderland, England
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      UK prime property
      Could younger homebuyers turn Belgravia from staid to ‘buzzy’?

      The exclusive London area is trying to attract a new demographic and correspondingly trendy shops and restaurants

      People at outdoor restaurant in Belgravia, London
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      What EU countries fight about when they fight about the budget Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: France’s selective bashing of Chinese electric vehicles

      Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
      What the Dutch far-right win means for the EU

      Record net migration to the UK post-Brexit

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Timothy Garton Ash
      Europe’s problem? It’s too attractive

      Harsh measures and lurid rhetoric on migration make the continent look as if it is betraying its own values

      Montage image of the EU flag and barbed wire
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Economists Exchange
      Huw Pill: ‘We are making our judgments. The markets are making their judgments’

      Bank of England’s chief economist on battling inflation and responding to geopolitical shocks

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Finland
      Finland warns Russia it is prepared to shut all border points over migrant pressure

      Foreign minister raises fears that Moscow could smuggle soldiers or war criminals into Nordic country

      A Finnish border guard speaks to migrants near the crossing between Finland and Russia in Salla, Finland
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      News in-depthDutch election
      Geert Wilders: the anti-Islam leader vowing to ‘put the Dutch first’

      Freedom party founder has made crude attacks on Muslim faith, migrants and Brussels

      Geert Wilders
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      News in-depthUK retail industry
      UK retailers increase Black Friday discounts while customers cut spending

      Shops are having to work harder to tempt customers, who are proving savvy about bargains

      Retailers are having to work harder as the sluggish economy and the cost of living affect people across the UK
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      BBC
      BBC falling short on moving music and radio spending out of London

      National Audit Office watchdog says broadcaster’s plan for relocating projects and jobs outside capital ‘under-developed’

      The BBC’s London headquarters
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Ireland
      Rioting breaks out in central Dublin after stabbing attacks

      Police condemn ‘lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology’

      Riot police stand next to a burning police vehicle
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