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Raphael Minder

Central Europe Correspondent

Raphael Minder is the FT's Central Europe correspondent, based in Warsaw. He previously covered Spain and Portugal for the New York Times. He rejoined the FT in 2022, having reported between 2000 and 2010 from Paris, Brussels, Sydney and Hong Kong as the FT's Asia regional correspondent. He is the author of two books about Spain. He is Swiss and started in journalism with Bloomberg News in Zurich.
Email Raphael Minder @RaphaelMinder  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    OutlookLGBT+
    Warsaw’s QueerMuzeum defies anti-gay hostility in Poland

    The nation’s first LGBTQ museum offers hope for a community still struggling with inequality

    Two women kiss inside a museum
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Rafał Brzoska
    Polish billionaire seeks support for ‘deepfake’ scams lawsuit against Meta

    InPost founder Rafał Brzoska wants 150 prominent figures to join move against Facebook parent over AI-created images

    Omenaa Mensah and Rafał Brzoska attend a Cannes gala in France
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Poland
    Poland’s former spy chief arrested over refusal to testify to parliament

    Piotr Pogonowski forcibly taken to parliamentary hearing over alleged government misuse of spyware

    Piotr Pogonowski
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    InterviewTransport
    Advent-backed Polish parcel locker group bets on UK

    InPost chief Rafał Brzoska says company could spend more than €1bn on acquisitions

    Rafał Brzoska in his office in Warsaw, Poland
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    EU energy
    EU’s outgoing energy chief warns against masking Russian gas imports

    Kadri Simson says talks with Azerbaijan would allow Gazprom to continue exporting to central Europe

    Kadri Simson speaks at the European parliament
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Slovakia
    Slovakia’s central bank governor given reprieve in corruption case

    Peter Kažimír spared from facing trial because of overhaul of penal code introduced by his old ally Robert Fico

    Peter Kažimír
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Poland
    Poland kicks off presidential campaign with push for World War II exhumations

    Kyiv agrees to allow Warsaw to investigate mass graves where Polish nationals were buried

    A woman stands next to the monument holding a sign and a man in a historical military uniform holds a flag.
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    EU defence
    Tusk calls for naval patrols in Baltic Sea to counter Russian sabotage

    Polish PM urges Europe to act against threats from Moscow without waiting for cues from US

    Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    InterviewEuropean banks
    Polish bank chief warns capital shortage will affect green transition

    Szymon Midera says mortgage mis-selling costs have depleted funds available to finance switch towards renewables

    Szymon Midera, chief executive of state-controlled PKO BP
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Mercosur
    Poland backs French effort to kill Mercosur trade deal

    Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to protect EU’s largest poultry producers

    Polish farmers with Polish flags are seen blocking the road to the Ukrainian border crossing at Medyka-Shehyni last weekend
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Vista Outdoor
    Czech takeover of US ammunition maker Kinetic wins shareholder approval

    Sale by Vista Outdoor comes after battle that sparked fierce Republican opposition

    Bullets in a box
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    Poland
    Warsaw’s mayor to face rightwing historian in Polish presidential race

    Liberal Rafał Trzaskowski will be pitted against Karol Nawrocki, candidate for opposition PiS party

    Karol Nawrocki
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Poland
    Poland urges EU to spend more on eastern defences ahead of Trump’s return

    Warsaw has largest military budget among Nato allies

    Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka in her Warsaw office
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Germany
    Severing of Baltic Sea cables likely to be sabotage, Germany says

    Defence minister Boris Pistorius says it is unclear who was responsible for ‘hybrid’ warfare tactic

    Boris Pistorius speaks to the press, surrounded by microphones from various media outlets
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    News in-depthRenewable energy
    Prague threatened with lawsuits as EU capitals struggle to fund green transition

    Investors in Czech solar parks threaten to sue over planned cuts to subsidies for photovoltaic installations

    Workers assemble a photovoltaic power plant in the Czech Republic
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Poland
    Tusk’s stance on migration hurts Polish economy, chiefs warn

    Visa restrictions and border crackdown deprive Poland of a much-needed foreign workforce, say business leaders

    Cherry Anne Cabulisan, a Pukta employee from the Philippines, and Oleksii Totkal, an employee from Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Terrorism
    Poland detains four over Russian parcel bomb plot targeting US-bound flights

    European officials say DHL parcel fires were result of test runs for using similar methods to attack transatlantic flights

    A DHL cargo aircraft is parked on the tarmac at Leipzig-Halle Airport. Several ground vehicles, including a bus and cargo loaders, are visible around the plane as staff work nearby
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    The new face of European illiberalism

    Prime Minister Robert Fico has tightened his grip on Slovakia using Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán’s playbook as inspiration

    Close up shot of Robert Fico’s face
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Poland
    Poland tells Ukraine to exhume second world war victims despite Russia’s invasion

    Foreign minister says Kyiv and Berlin should act on Warsaw’s historic grievances

    A church can be seen in the background. A woman carries a small flag in the foreground, while the larger flag is held behind her
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Georgia’s EU future is on the ballot in historic parliament vote Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Russian migrant-smuggling ring busted

    Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    EU eastern tensions
    EU unblocks funds for Slovakia after U-turn on fraud sentences

    Reassurances by Bratislava on legal reform accepted after €800mn had been delayed over Brussels’ corruption concerns

  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    HTSI
    The wild catamarans of Gdańsk

    How Sunreef started a new revolution in boat-building

    Boat builder Francis Lapp on the Thea VI, a 100 Sunreef Power catamaran
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    EU immigration
    Poland’s Tusk rekindles EU migration debate

    Prime minister announces suspension of right to asylum in his country

    Donald Tusk speaks at the Civic Coalition convention in Warsaw, Poland. He holds a microphone, addressing the audience, with people seated in the background.
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    News in-depthPoland
    Polish opposition digs in against Tusk’s ‘iron broom’

    A year after his election the pro-EU premier has repaired his country’s standing abroad but struggles at home

    Donald Tusk
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Poland
    Poland pushes EU to exempt its defence spending from fiscal rules

    Finance minister says Brussels should show solidarity instead of pursuing Warsaw under bloc’s excessive deficit procedure

    Army equipment is seen in the port after the arrival of the first K2 tanks and K9 howitzers for Poland on December 6, 2022 at the Baltic Container Terminal in Gdynia. -
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