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    Europe Editor

    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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    • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Ukraine’s war of survival enters third year

      How Russia’s full-scale invasion is bearing on each nation’s military, economy and politics

      Montage of soldiers, drones, Ukraine’s coat of arms and chart
    • Friday, 23 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      European capitals seek $1.5bn in fallback plan to arm Ukraine

      Czech Republic leads initiative to buy artillery shells from outside EU

      A Challenger 2 tank of the Ukrainian army
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      ExplainerWar in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Volodymyr Zelenskyy hails Ukraine defence deals with Germany and France

      President welcomes long-term military aid after Russian invasion as ‘new security architecture’

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands after signing a bilateral defence accord in Paris
    • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
      InterviewUrsula von der Leyen
      Von der Leyen calls on EU to subsidise defence production

      Brussels must fortify sector for a ‘rougher world’, commission president warns in interview with FT

      Ursula von der Leyen
    • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
      News in-depthUkraine military briefing
      Battle for Avdiivka tests Ukraine’s new commander

      Oleksandr Syrsky aims to shore up eastern town, with troops fearing heavy losses as western supplies run short

      Kyiv’s new commander-in-chief General Oleksandr Syrsky
    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine says it has destroyed Russian ship in Black Sea

      Landing vessel Cesar Kunikov is latest vessel to be hit by sea drones near Crimea

      Russia’s landing ship the Cesar Kunikov during a parade in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol
    • Monday, 12 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Russia using Elon Musk’s Starlink on Ukraine front line, says Kyiv

      Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow’s troops ‘systemic’

      A Starlink system to receive internet is positioned on the frontline in Donetsk, Ukraine
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Who is Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s new top military commander?

      General credited with key battlefield successes has also faced criticism over tactics and costly defence of Bakhmut

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre left, with Oleksandr Syrsky, centre right
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Zelenskyy dismisses Ukraine’s ‘iron general’

      Removal of Valeriy Zaluzhny follows months of tensions between president and top commander

      Valeriy Zaluzhny at meeting with US secretary of state Antony Blinken and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
    • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Biden blames Trump for sinking US deal to fund Ukraine war effort

      Former president had trashed congressional agreement seen as last chance to send more aid to Kyiv

      President Joe Biden speaks at the White House
    • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
      The Big Read
      Viktor Orbán: what is the endgame for Europe’s chief disrupter?

      The Hungarian prime minister has a long history of extracting EU concessions. He hopes a shift to the right could work in his favour

      Montage image of Viktor Orbán and an EU flag
    • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      Viktor Orbán: the EU’s chief disrupter

      The EU’s battle with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán could come to a head on Thursday

    • Friday, 26 January, 2024
      InterviewViktor Orbán
      US attacks Hungary’s Orbán for ‘fantasy foreign policy’ that helps Putin

      Hungarian prime minister’s actions harm unity of western alliance, says ambassador David Pressman

      Viktor Orbán shakes hands with Vladimir Putin
    • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
      Rachman Review podcast20 min listen
      The battle for the control of Poland’s institutions

      Can Tusk provide a model for restoring democracy in Europe?

    • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
      Hungary
      Orbán says Hungary will approve Sweden’s Nato bid

      Firebrand leader speaks to head of military alliance after Turkey opts to support Scandinavian nation’s accession

      Viktor Orbán
    • Monday, 1 January, 2024
      Global InsightWar in Ukraine
      Army conscription becomes toxic issue for Ukraine’s leaders

      Neither the Ukrainian president nor his top military commanders want to take responsibility for drafting reluctant fighters

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, front left, and other military and political leaders stand during a memorial site commemoration in Kyiv
    • Saturday, 30 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia blames Ukraine for deadly attack on border city

      Moscow says it shot down dozens of drones and missiles a day after launching strike that killed 39

    • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
      Jacques Delors
      Jacques Delors, who drove EU integration, dies at 98

      Former president of European Commission presided over creation of single market

      Jacques Delors, pictured in 2007
    • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine warns of pension and salary delays without western aid

      Shortfall in external aid would push a recovering economy back into survival mode, says deputy prime minister

      Ukraine’s economy minister and first deputy prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko
    • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine destroys Russian landing ship in further blow to Black Sea fleet

      Campaign against military sites in Crimea has been a rare bright spot for Kyiv in the war

      Explosion of the Novocherkassk anchored at the Crimean port of Feodosia
    • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
      The Big Read
      How migration is pushing Europe to the right

      Growing public concern over asylum applicant numbers is bolstering once-fringe parties across the bloc

      Migrants are surrounded by French National Police as they wait to board a bus for reception centers after leaving their makeshift camp during a sheltering operation by the local prefecture in Loon-Plage, northern France on November 30, 2023
    • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukrainian army chiefs seek to mobilise 500,000 more troops

      President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says military wants more conscription to hold lines against Russia

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had instructed his military chiefs to develop a detailed plan explaining why so many new troops were needed
    • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      EBRD to double lending to Ukraine after agreeing €4bn capital increase

      Sustaining economy at ‘critical time’ for war-torn country is priority, says bank president Odile Renaud-Basso

      Odile Renaud-Basso
    • Monday, 18 December, 2023
      News in-depthViktor Orbán
      EU strives to make Orbán realise ‘full costs’ of isolation after Ukraine veto

      Setback on funding for Kyiv was ‘high point of escalation’ by antagonistic Hungarian premier

      Viktor Orbán
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