Financial Times Brussels Bureau Chief, and writer of Europe Express morning briefing. Past lives in Moscow, Warsaw, London and New Delhi. ✉️ [email protected]
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Very excited to start today as the @FinancialTimes Brussels bureau chief, leading a stupendous team of reporters covering the EU's good, bad and ugly: from war to economic malaise, climate change, busted budgets & an existential enlargement question!
My 2025 resolution - post on Bluesky 🦋
See you there: bsky.app/profile/henryjfoy.b…
.@FT’s 2024 in a word: Competitiveness
Mario Draghi’s clarion call for the EU to get its shit together, reboot its economy and close the yawning GDP gap on the US and China is now the buzzword on every EU leader’s lips.
But can @vonderleyen deliver?
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At Wednesday nights meeting of top Nato leaders, Germany’s Scholz lost his temper, lashing out at Poland’s Duda over Russia’s frozen assets
It was a telling sign of a divided & uncoordinated Europe as it braces for Trump
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@ft weekend read w @hallbenjamin
With Zelenskyy present, the two leaders squabbled over the Russian assets, rehashing a years-long argument inside the EU.
“You don’t understand” Scholz barked at Duda. “You don’t even use the euro!”
Hours later, Zelenskyy told reporters he couldn’t rely on Europe without the US
“The Europeans remain largely unprepared for what has been on the cards since early this year,” says @MollingDGAP. “We are now entering the most dangerous weeks for Europe.”
Read the whole analysis here:
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💥 Trump wants 5% Nato defence spending target, Europe told - but says he WILL keep supplying weapons to Ukraine.
ft.com/content/35f490c5-3abb… via @ft
So thrilled that Brussels’ best is joining our already brilliant team - @BMoens will be a star for the @FT as we expand and deepen our coverage of one of the EU’s most important stories.
✨ New year, new job! I’ll be joining the Financial Times’ Brussels bureau to cover all things competition and tech and look forward to work with this amazing team.
. @HenryJFoy @AndyBounds @paolatamma @alicemhancock @lauramdubois
She’ll own the EU competitiveness story; with pieces like this brilliant swansong
“People will write about in the history books: Did [von der Leyen] manage to hold firm against Russia? And did she stop Europe’s economic decline? All the rest are details”
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Lord Peter Mandelson to be UK’s next ambassador to US
@GeorgeWParker @FinancialTimes on.ft.com/3ZZVu9U
European security guarantees ‘not sufficient’ for Ukraine, says Zelenskyy
“It is very important for us to have both on board, the United States and the Europeans . . . a common decision.”
ft.com/content/4472b1c2-20bc… via @ft
Security guarantees without US not ‘sufficient’ for Ukraine, says Volodymyr Zelenskyy after 24 hours of talks with EU and Nato leaders on future support pledges
ft.com/content/6b46bac8-fabc… via @ft
Russian election meddling "nearly impossible" to prove, says Romanian president, who warns: “All countries are exposed to this risk”
ft.com/content/743ad422-385a… @valentinapop in Bucharest for @ft
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Troops on the ground? Peacekeepers? A mutual defence guarantee that doesn’t include US? A select group of European leaders huddled in Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte’s house in Brussels last night to talk potential ideas with Zelensky, writes @HenryJFoy. on.ft.com/4fpvVDN
Stop pushing Zelenskyy into peace talks and instead make sure your security guarantees to Kyiv aren’t “empty”, the EU’s top diplomat @kajakallas warns EU capitals in an interview with the @FT
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Kallas spoke ahead of a summit of EU leaders today attended by Zelenskyy, where they will discuss how to possibly adapt Brussels’ support to Ukraine in light of Trump’s election victory and his vow to suspend US aid to Kyiv & force immediate peace talks
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This piece by @rayajalabi and @SarahDadouch is the kind of stunning reporting that we all go into journalism aspiring to do. Unbelievable stuff. Read it and don’t look away: on.ft.com/3OWC67A
Denmark forced to revamp defence plan agreed just 8 months ago, PM Frederiksen tells @hallbenjamin, in a sign of how fast EU govts are rethinking military budgets in response to Trump and Russia
ft.com/content/9744ac4f-57a7… @ft
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#Migration: #EU nears migration deals with #Jordan and #Morocco, by @lauramdubois and @HenryJFoy | Financial Times ft.com/content/46a250a0-fc28…
