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  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    News in-depthRomania
    The Wagner-style mercenaries plotting unrest in Romania

    Horaţiu Potra, a former member of the French Foreign Legion, was arrested with 20 other armed men headed for Bucharest

    Palace of the People in Bucharest, plus Horaţiu Potra from video
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    French politics
    Corporate France faces up to new era of political dysfunction

    Government’s collapse over budget deepens uncertainty for business

    Michel Barnier, left, and Emmanuel Macron
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    US equities provide rocket fuel for record ETF flows in November

    Virtually every other corner of the ETF investment universe was ground into dust by the onward march of Wall St

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  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    Darkenbloom — a reckoning with Austria’s 20th-century history

    Eva Menasse’s sprawling bestseller, set in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, confronts a nation with its murky past

    An overhead shot of a walled backyard, showing a rooftop, some laundry on a washing line and some tall sunflowers
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK government spending
    UK public sector workers face fresh pay restraint as Treasury takes tough stance

    Whitehall departments say rises of more than 2.8% for NHS staff and teachers in 2025-26 would be unaffordable

    Protest during joint strike action by train drivers, teachers, university staff and civil servants, in Leeds under last government
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Romania’s cancelled presidential election

    An alleged Russian campaign to support a nationalist candidate raises alarms

    Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gives a statement to the press in Mogoșoaia, Romania
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria

    Satellite imagery shows no signs of withdrawal from air and naval facilities

    A satellite image of Russia-operated Hmeimim air base in Latakia, Syria, on Sunday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Reckoning with an era of slow growth

    Opportunities exist for the UK and its European neighbours, but they must grasp the nettle of economic reform

    James Ferguson illustration of John Bull riding a penny farthing bicycle with a square-shaped back wheel up a climbing red chart line, as a British bulldog looks on
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Financial services
    FCA chair warns UK against regulatory ‘race to the bottom’ with Trump

    Ashley Alder underlines danger of pursuing a US-led ‘deregulation agenda’

    Ashley Alder
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK local government finance
    Birmingham equal pay deal raises doubt over council’s bankruptcy

    Authority to pay about £250mn to settle historic dispute, far less than previously expected

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    The Assads’ Syrian heartland casts them aside

    Allies of the ruling family have fled while coastal areas from which the regime drew support are celebrating its downfall

    Destroyed naval vessels
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Katie Martin
    Investors need to keep an eye on Ukraine

    Now is the time for money managers to at least think about how they would respond if peace broke out

    Local residents attend a memorial ceremony under a destroyed bridge in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Financial Conduct Authority UK
    UK regulator behaved ‘unfairly’ over mis-selling scandal redress scheme, court told

    FCA ‘shut out’ businesses wrongly sold products designed to protect against interest rate changes, High Court hears

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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK government spending
    Review of £1.2tn in UK public spending will ‘be tight’, minister warns

    Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones launches line-by-line assessment to find 5% savings

    Darren Jones and Rachel Reeves during a visit to Maidstone hospital on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone’s purchase of London’s ‘Can of Ham’ skyscraper falls through

    US investment group had been in exclusive talks to buy office building for about £300mn

    Can of Ham office tower
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK energy
    EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market

    Brussels says its ‘no cherry picking’ rule should apply to co-operation on electricity trading

    Wind turbines off the coast of Scotland
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell and Greenpeace settle ‘Cousin Greg’ lawsuit over protesters boarding vessel

    Environmental group to give £300,000 to charity and stay away from four North Sea platforms for at least five years

    Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat, carrying a flag that says “Stop drilling, start paying”, approaching a Shell platform
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Ashtead Group PLC
    Ashtead plans to move listing to New York in fresh blow to London

    Construction equipment group generates most of its profits in North America

    A Sunbelt digger
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why EU countries are freezing Syrian asylum applications Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How Rachel Reeves’ pitch to Brussels went down

    A cyclist passes containers used as houses for refugees at former Berlin Tempelhof airport
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Sarah O'Connor
    Economists need to get their story straight on immigration

    Focusing on the impact on the wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow

    Farm workers in overalls and hairnets sort through freshly cut asparagus
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    MPs should quiz ‘finfluencers’, says Treasury select committee chair

    Meg Hillier highlights concern over people turning to ‘some random on TikTok’ for financial guidance

    Dame Meg Hillier
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    News in-depthUkraine military briefing
    Ukraine’s patchy fortifications help Russia advance

    Invading troops capture more territory in Donetsk and move closer to region’s western border

    Montage of a map and a tank
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    AllianceBernstein LP
    AllianceBernstein to sue Switzerland over $17bn Credit Suisse debt wipeout

    US asset manager will join case over decision when UBS took over struggling rival

    A Swiss flag above a Credit Suisse sign in Bern, Switzerland, in 2023
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Agricultural production
    EU’s new agriculture chief seeks more funds for small farmers

    Christophe Hansen seeks changes to bloc’s multibillion-euro farm subsidy scheme

    Farmers protesting in Carcassonne, southern France
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    John Gapper
    Christie’s has brought the dinosaur auction show to London

    Scientists have been priced out by billionaires in the global market for prehistoric fossils

    Three dinosaur skeletons
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