Valentina Pop
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FT Europe news editor. Brussels veteran. The name is real.
on.ft.com/4ozfoC3 Dutch voters eye return to centre after far-right experiment fails
Dutch voters eye return to centre after far-right experiment fails
[FREE TO READ] Greens-Labour and Christian Democrats vow to form coalition without Geert Wilders’ party after elections on Wednesday
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October 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
on.ft.com/4ozfoC3 Dutch voters eye return to centre after far-right experiment fails
on.ft.com/4oPyJzl Trump-Putin summit in Budapest unsettles Europe
Trump-Putin summit in Budapest unsettles Europe
[FREE TO READ] Volodymyr Zelenskyy objects to Hungary’s pro-Russian leader hosting meeting aimed at ending Moscow’s invasion
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October 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
on.ft.com/4oPyJzl Trump-Putin summit in Budapest unsettles Europe
on.ft.com/42PX0wu Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
[FREE TO READ] US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting
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October 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
on.ft.com/42PX0wu Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
on.ft.com/4qdu37G EU offers to buy US weapons for Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets
EU offers to buy US weapons for Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets
[FREE TO READ] Proposal aims to keep Donald Trump on Kyiv’s side amid signs of US-Russia détente
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October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
on.ft.com/4qdu37G EU offers to buy US weapons for Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets
on.ft.com/4onmcmj How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine
How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine
[FREE TO READ] Fraught summit in Anchorage marked a nadir that reshaped how the presidents approach each other
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October 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
on.ft.com/4onmcmj How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine
on.ft.com/42L9Dc5 FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
[FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
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October 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
on.ft.com/42L9Dc5 FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
on.ft.com/4n9h30b The Tomahawk missiles Trump is considering for Ukraine @christopherjm.ft.com
The Tomahawk missiles Trump is considering for Ukraine
[FREE TO READ] The US president has floated selling Kyiv a long-range weapon capable of striking Moscow
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October 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
on.ft.com/4n9h30b The Tomahawk missiles Trump is considering for Ukraine @christopherjm.ft.com
on.ft.com/4nMH72b French PM to freeze Macron’s pension reform until 2027
French PM to freeze Macron’s pension reform until 2027
[FREE TO READ] Sébastien Lecornu hopes concession will suffice to secure left’s support
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October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
on.ft.com/4nMH72b French PM to freeze Macron’s pension reform until 2027
on.ft.com/478fY2C Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup
Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup
[FREE TO READ] FSB launches fresh criminal case against former Yukos oil magnate and 22 other dissidents in exile
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October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
on.ft.com/478fY2C Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup
on.ft.com/46NXmWS Germany to allow retirees to earn €2,000 a month tax-free @chassnews.bsky.social
Germany to allow retirees to earn €2,000 a month tax-free
[FREE TO READ] Chancellor Friedrich Merz seeking to reignite economy and address challenges of a shrinking workforce
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October 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
on.ft.com/46NXmWS Germany to allow retirees to earn €2,000 a month tax-free @chassnews.bsky.social
on.ft.com/42OsIKr German lawmakers object to arms contracts without open tenders
German lawmakers object to arms contracts without open tenders
[FREE TO READ] Budget committee stalls government plans to speed up defence procurement
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September 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
on.ft.com/42OsIKr German lawmakers object to arms contracts without open tenders
on.ft.com/48yqMJE Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities
Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities
[FREE TO READ] Job of protecting critical national infrastructure grows more complex as Russia tests Nato members
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September 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
on.ft.com/48yqMJE Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities
on.ft.com/4npbSdv Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk @chassnews.bsky.social
Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk
[FREE TO READ] State modernisation minister Karsten Wildberger promises to bring about digital age in country clinging to fax machines
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September 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
on.ft.com/4npbSdv Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk @chassnews.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4gxC2rG Denmark suffers ‘serious attack’ on infrastructure with drones closing airport @richardmilne.ft.com
Denmark suffers ‘serious attack’ on infrastructure with drones closing airport
[FREE TO READ] PM Mette Frederiksen refuses to rule out Russian involvement as Nato and EU blame Moscow’s ‘reckless’ behaviour in recent airspace breaches
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September 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
on.ft.com/4gxC2rG Denmark suffers ‘serious attack’ on infrastructure with drones closing airport @richardmilne.ft.com
on.ft.com/4pCLGNM ‘We had a stampede’: Irish surge across border for weight-loss jabs @judewebber.bsky.social
‘We had a stampede’: Irish surge across border for weight-loss jabs
[FREE TO READ] Historic smuggling haven of Newry plays host to bargain-hunters from the Republic looking for new legal drugs
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September 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
on.ft.com/4pCLGNM ‘We had a stampede’: Irish surge across border for weight-loss jabs @judewebber.bsky.social
on.ft.com/46xNbEf Chinese cargo ship docks in Russian-occupied Crimea @christopherjm.ft.com @chriscook.news
Chinese cargo ship docks in Russian-occupied Crimea
[FREE TO READ] Heng Yang 9 stops in Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, which has been under western sanctions since 2014
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September 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
on.ft.com/46xNbEf Chinese cargo ship docks in Russian-occupied Crimea @christopherjm.ft.com @chriscook.news
on.ft.com/47NTUfL EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system @bmoens.bsky.social @paolatamma.bsky.social
EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system
[FREE TO READ] Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’
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September 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
on.ft.com/47NTUfL EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system @bmoens.bsky.social @paolatamma.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4gwD4US In charts: Can Germany afford its €1.35tn welfare state? @chassnews.bsky.social @olafstorbeck.ft.com
In charts: Can Germany afford its €1.35tn welfare state?
[FREE TO READ] Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants benefit cuts, but his coalition partners are pushing back
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September 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
on.ft.com/4gwD4US In charts: Can Germany afford its €1.35tn welfare state? @chassnews.bsky.social @olafstorbeck.ft.com
on.ft.com/4nFlZur Germany considers dropping France from flagship fighter jet project
Germany considers dropping France from flagship fighter jet project
[FREE TO READ] Crisis over weapons programme crucial to European defence ambitions deepens as Berlin considers alternative partners
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September 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
on.ft.com/4nFlZur Germany considers dropping France from flagship fighter jet project
on.ft.com/4muUNh1 EU plans to unlock €550mn for Hungary to secure Russian energy sanctions
EU plans to unlock €550mn for Hungary to secure Russian energy sanctions
[FREE TO READ] Brussels seeks Viktor Orbán’s backing to bring forward ban on Russian LNG and lower oil price cap
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September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
on.ft.com/4muUNh1 EU plans to unlock €550mn for Hungary to secure Russian energy sanctions
on.ft.com/4nlEBzu Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance
Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance
[FREE TO READ] A picture of her grandmother posted on social media sent the author to the archives of Albania’s former security services — and raised difficult questions about who watches us today
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September 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
on.ft.com/4nlEBzu Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance
Germany’s central bank is considering abandoning its landmark brutalist headquarters in Frankfurt amid regulatory criticism of a multibillion euro redevelopment of the asbestos-stricken site, where half of the country’s gold reserves are stored.
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Asbestos, gold and spiralling costs: Bundesbank weighs abandoning Frankfurt headquarters
[FREE TO READ] A €3.3bn refurbishment of the brutalist site has come under fire from Germany’s Federal Audit Office
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August 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Germany’s central bank is considering abandoning its landmark brutalist headquarters in Frankfurt amid regulatory criticism of a multibillion euro redevelopment of the asbestos-stricken site, where half of the country’s gold reserves are stored.
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The stories of Hamlet and Rørek are one. Without Scandinavian sagas and priestly chroniclers in Kyiv we would not have the famous Shakespearean play,and Russians would lack their origin legend. To understand them is to see how deception and self-deception began a war and worsens it
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The myths that made Putin’s war
[FREE TO READ] The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
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August 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The stories of Hamlet and Rørek are one. Without Scandinavian sagas and priestly chroniclers in Kyiv we would not have the famous Shakespearean play,and Russians would lack their origin legend. To understand them is to see how deception and self-deception began a war and worsens it
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on.ft.com/3V9Zhyc ‘Red lines’: Ukraine fears more Russian aggression if it gives up land
‘Red lines’: Ukraine fears more Russian aggression if it gives up land
[FREE TO READ] Zelenskyy’s anxiety over territorial concessions increases in the face of Putin’s maximalist demands
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August 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
on.ft.com/3V9Zhyc ‘Red lines’: Ukraine fears more Russian aggression if it gives up land
on.ft.com/3HDgehg Domes, prayers and protests: Anchorage awaits Trump-Putin summit
Domes, prayers and protests: Anchorage awaits Trump-Putin summit
[FREE TO READ] Ukrainian refugees in Alaska have mixed feelings about US and Russian leaders’ meeting
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August 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
on.ft.com/3HDgehg Domes, prayers and protests: Anchorage awaits Trump-Putin summit