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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s public television news channel halted broadcasting on Wednesday as the country’s new pro-EU administration asserted control over state media, which it said had become a mouthpiece of the rightwing former government. The abrupt shutdown
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. EU finance ministers have bowed to German pressure for tough debt-reduction rules, as part of a deal to phase in a sweeping overhaul of the union’s budget framework. After months of haggling, the package gives
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Court cases brought against a former president who also happens to be the frontrunner for a third go atop his party’s national ticket are inevitably political, regardless of high-minded claims by prosecutors and judges that
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is rarely a good plan for political parties to rubbish their record in government, not least because voters might decide to believe them. If you want a leading indicator of a party heading for
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has struck a political deal to overhaul the bloc’s asylum and migration rules, concluding more than seven years of fraught negotiations over how to tighten the regime and share responsibility. The reforms, provisionally
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation slowed much more sharply than expected in November to 3.9 per cent, down from 4.6 per cent in October, according to official data that will add to pressure on the Bank of England
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It was the death of a baby at an overcrowded reception centre for asylum seekers in the Netherlands last year that convinced Prime Minister Mark Rutte that Europe was once again grappling with a migrant crisis. The three-month-old died in a sports hall in a village on the German border. The images of an overwhelmed
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There can be little doubt that Donald Trump 2.0 would pose an even greater threat to US democracy than he did last time. Yet issuing the same warning to Americans again and again is not
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After hitting Russia with an unprecedented array of sanctions following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, G7 allies are considering an even more drastic step: spending Moscow’s money. Western nations, including the US, are exploring ways to justify seizing Russian central bank assets that are frozen in the financial system, and using them to fund Kyiv.
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Emmanuel Macron’s government was thrown into crisis on Tuesday as the French president’s centrist alliance splintered and several of his ministers threatened to resign ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote on a toughened version of
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