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    Henry Foy is the FT's Brussels Bureau Chief, leading coverage of EU affairs and managing a team of correspondents reporting on European politics and policy.

    Henry is also the lead writer of Europe Express, the FT’s agenda-setting weekday newsletter on European affairs. Sign up here

    Previously he was Moscow Bureau Chief, where he interviewed president Vladimir Putin and charted his regime's descent into repression. He has also been posted in Warsaw and London. Henry joined the FT in 2013 from Reuters, where he was a correspondent in India.

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    • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
      Jim Ratcliffe
      Jim Ratcliffe warns EU bureaucracy will drive away industry’s investments

      Petrochemicals billionaire says he would have passed on $4bn Belgium investment if he had known of regulatory hurdles

      Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, chairman and founder of Ineos Group Holdings
    • Friday, 23 February, 2024
      Europe Express
      Why Europe’s farmers are still on the warpath Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Can Bulgaria’s awkward coalition deal survive?

      Tractors are parked near the European Parliament during a protest by farmers as European leaders meet for an EU summit in Brussels
    • 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
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      Moldova
      EU imposes sanctions on Russia-linked entities accused of destabilising Moldova

      Six individuals and a paramilitary group alleged to be doing Moscow’s bidding in former Soviet state

      Police officers block protesters holding an anti-government rally
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Kyiv has right to strike Russian targets ‘outside Ukraine’, says Nato chief

      Jens Stoltenberg lays out Ukrainian right to defend itself including by extraterritorial attacks

      Jens Stoltenberg
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
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      Why von der Leyen is focusing on security ahead of EU elections Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: the arcane process to choose the host of the EU’s anti-money laundering agency

      European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, centre, leaves a press conference at the European parliament in Brussels
    • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      EU agrees first sanctions on Chinese and Indian companies for Russia war links

      Curbs on almost 200 entities aim to ‘degrade’ Moscow’s capability to attack Ukraine

      Russia’s President Vladimir Putin visiting a military plant in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil, Russia
    • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
      Alexei Navalny
      UK imposes sanctions on managers of Russian prison where Navalny died

      US and EU set to follow Foreign Office’s asset freeze and travel ban in response to death of opposition leader

      Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link from the IK-2 corrective penal colony in May 2022
    • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
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      Why Poland and the Baltics are jostling for the EU’s top security jobs Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: A closer look at the bloc’s green spending gap

      Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas
    • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
      EU defence
      Brussels power grab on defence irks industry and EU capitals

      Ursula von der Leyen’s plans to use common funding for arms contracts meets resistance

      EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
    • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
      Europe Express
      Why EU businesses want a break from red tape and green rules Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Warsaw and Brussels seek an end to their legal fight

      Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo, right, and Margrethe Vestager, second from left
    • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
      European economy
      ExxonMobil warns EU that red tape might push it to invest elsewhere

      US energy giant says Brussels needs to cut its climate-related regulatory burden to draw private funding

    • 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
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      Alexei Navalny
      Navalny’s team accuses Kremlin of hiding activist’s body

      Russian officials refuse to disclose probable cause of death to family

      Lyudmila Navalny and family lawyers in Salekhard, Russia
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      Ursula von der Leyen
      Von der Leyen kicks off campaign for second term at Brussels’ helm

      European Commission president to pledge to boost defence spending, business competitiveness and green policies

      Ursula von der Leyen
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
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      Why von der Leyen’s nomination kick-starts the EU election campaign Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: should Brussels let farmers use more poo on their fields?

      Ursula von der Leyen
    • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
      Poland
      Poland’s struggling nationalists gear up for leadership battle

      Popularity of Donald Tusk’s coalition pushes rightwing Law and Justice party to consider replacing Jarosław Kaczyński

      Jaroslaw Kaczynski
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
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      Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition activist, 1976-2024

      Most prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin campaigned for ‘beautiful Russia of the future’

      Alexei Navalny addresses supporters during an unauthorized anti-Putin rally in May, 2018, in Moscow
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
      Europe Express
      Why the US wants to show Europe that it still cares about its security Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Euroclear thrown into the spotlight

      A member of the German armed forces near the venue for the Munich Security Conference in Munich
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
      Nato
      Why Nato members are sounding the alarm on Russia’s aggressive posture

      Western defence figures warn of Moscow’s capabilities and heightened threat beyond Ukraine

      Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, visiting Uralvagonzavod’s tank factory in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region, Russia on February 15 2024
    • 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
      Europe Express
      Why Hungary is again blocking the latest round of Russia sanctions Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Drug violence spills on to the streets of Brussels

      Viktor Orbán
    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
      Nato
      Nato defence spending to hit record as alliance braces for potential Trump win

      Eighteen of 31 countries are set to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence

      Donald Trump among other leaders at the Nato summit in the UK in 2019
    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
      Europe Express
      Why more defence spending protects Europe from Russia — and Trump Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Kosovo pushes out Serbian dinar for the euro

      NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, centre front left, speaks with then-US President Donald Trump while other leaders in the background look on
    • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
      Europe Express
      Why Poland’s Donald Tusk is mending EU ties Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: why the EU’s climate goals need to factor in Ukraine

      Donald Tusk, left, shakes hands with Olaf Scholz
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