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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    UK labour disputes
    Junior doctors in England willing to consider lower pay rise this year, says union

    Suggestion that striking NHS staff would not pursue original demand for 35% increase comes ahead of 5-day strike

    Junior doctors on a picket line in Newcastle last month
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Biden issues new sanctions against Russia in response to Navalny death

    Measures on eve of second anniversary of Ukraine invasion target war effort and attempts to get round oil cap rules

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Person in the News
    Yulia Navalnaya, Russia’s new opposition leader

    Following the death of Alexei Navalny, she has assumed her husband’s mantle — at considerable personal risk

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Yulia Navalnaya
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Austria
    Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz found guilty of perjury

    Conditional jail sentence for politician once seen as the European right’s wunderkind

    Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz arrives at court
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The troubling decline in the global fertility rate

    Developed economies need to be better prepared for a drop in younger workers

    A mother and a baby
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Cannabis industry
    Germany legalises cannabis for personal use

    Controversial law falls short of allowing wholesale cultivation and retail of the drug

    People wearing shirts calling for the legalisation of cannabis watch German legislators debating the bill
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Andy Street
    Birmingham’s cuts are the price of political failure

    Innocent citizens will be paying a lot more for a lot less, but in Brum, being down is not the same as being out

    People walk past an empty shop in Birmingham. Poor decision-making at local authority level can have dire consequences
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    FT live news
    News updates from February 23: Nvidia market value briefly tops $2tn, Navalny’s mother refuses Russian ultimatum
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Space industry
    Are investors prepared for *checks notes* nuclear war in space?

    Space boom, meet actual boom

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Deutsche Bundesbank
    Bundesbank burns through more than €20bn to cover huge losses

    German central bank uses up €19.2bn of provisions it built up to cover financial risks to absorb deficit

    A car drives out of the Bundesbank’s headquarters in Frankfurt
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    EU energy
    European gas price falls to pre-energy crisis level

    Regional benchmark trades at lowest rate since Russia began curtailing supplies to Europe in 2021

    A floating storage and regasification unit in Germany
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Poland
    EU to start unfreezing Poland’s funds next week

    Ursula von der Leyen says Warsaw made ‘decisive’ steps to restore rule of law

    Donald Tusk and Ursula von der Leyen in front of a podium
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    ReviewFashion shows
    At Milan Fashion Week, brands lean into what they do best

    Milan is marked by a new kind of creativity and constraint, as Fendi, Max Mara and Prada offer an assured point of view needed in luxury

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK society
    Birth rate drops to new low in England and Wales

    Fertility level falls to 1.49 children per woman in 2022, well below rate needed to maintain a population without immigration

    A baby boy is weighed in hospital
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Q&AFT subscriber event
    FT subscriber webinar: Russia’s war on Ukraine

    FT journalists and guests delved into likely developments in Ukraine, Russia and the world in the conflict’s third year

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    How Ukraine is trying to help its ‘lost generation’

    With lessons in the subway and secret online teaching, adults seek to create some normality for children shaped by war

    Children in an underground primary school in Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    BASF SE
    BASF extends cost cuts by €1bn as demand for chemicals falls

    Chemicals maker intensifies downsizing at home site as it battles high energy prices and sinking demand

    The BASF plant at Ludwigshafen
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
    The thrilling intensity of Lankum

    The Dublin band talk uilleann pipes, punk and politics 

    From left: Cormac Mac Diarmada, Radie Peat, Daragh Lynch and Ian Lynch in their rehearsal space in Dublin
  • 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
    Soumaya Keynes
    A second dose of Trump on trade would differ from the first

    Expect more emphasis on global trade deficits, more dramatic intervention and bigger problems for Europe

    Ann Kiernan illustration of Donald Trump standing in front of a blue background with a downward trending graph and yellow stars crossed out.
  • 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
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthEU defence
    The companies benefiting from Europe’s defence revival

    Weapons makers are boosting production after decades of under-investment

    Graph of missiles, shells and aircraft
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses

    It’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis

    Montage image of a house with a flag and chart lines
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK and EU agree to co-operate more closely on migration

    Britain and border agency Frontex to share intelligence and swap liaison staff in latest evidence of thawing relations

    Frontex official
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Booking Holdings
    Booking faces almost €500mn fine in Spain over competition practices

    Regulators seek to clamp down on world’s biggest online travel group as part of efforts to control tech dominance

    Tourists on Las Ramblas, Barcelona
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