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Ben Hall

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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  • 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
  • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Ukraine’s economic recovery depends on extra allied aid, warns IMF chief

    Kristalina Georgieva urges US and EU to seal deals that would unlock tens of billions of dollars in funding

    Kristalina Georgieva
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Zelenskyy’s bitter week of disappointment

    Ukrainian leader fails to secure long-term financial aid from US and EU

    Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine on December 6 2023
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Instant InsightWar in Ukraine
    With Ukraine the EU is learning to be a strategic power

    The green light to accession talks shows the bloc is learning to be a strategic power despite failure on aid

    European Council president Charles Michel makes a statement to the media on Thursday about accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    The Big Read
    The west wavers on Ukraine

    The next week could be critical for the country’s future. Having promised open-ended support, the US and EU are struggling to provide new funding

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    The crackdown on Ukraine’s oligarchs

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government is taking action against politically influential business figures

  • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    EU budget dispute threatens €50bn war lifeline for Ukraine

    Bloc’s leaders embroiled in financial row that risks leaving Kyiv empty-handed at crucial moment in conflict

    EU leaders and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
    EU state aid
    More state aid will not help Europe compete, warns Belgian PM

    Alexander De Croo says EU should deepen single market as subsidy race favours countries with ‘deepest pockets’

  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    The Big Read
    The crackdown on Ukraine’s oligarchs

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government is taking action against politically influential business figures. But will a new generation take their place?

  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    Europe Express
    EU and Canada preparing show of friendship at joint summit Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Austria’s foreign minister calls for elections in Ukraine

    Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Treat Bosnia on par with Ukraine over accession talks, Austria tells EU

    Foreign minister warns Brussels not to look at Balkans ‘with a magnifying glass’ and at Kyiv ‘with rose-tinted glasses’

    Alexander Schallenberg
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

    A visual guide to the war

    Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
  • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
    Europe Express
    Europe trudges ahead with beefing up its security and defence order Premium content

    EU nations will need to step up to the plate in arming Kyiv as US support becomes less fulsome

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alongside Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine claims significant advance in counteroffensive against Russia

    Kyiv’s forces establish fortified bridgeheads on left bank of the Dnipro in Russian-occupied Kherson

    Ukainian marines on a small boat at the Dnipro river
  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Zelenskyy calls for discipline as cracks emerge in Kyiv’s unity

    Ukrainian president fires head of special forces and rebukes top commander who said war with Russia was at a ‘stalemate’

    Ukrainian soldiers in the Bakhmut district of Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    France and Netherlands draw up plans to ship aid to Gaza

    Scheme aims to ease dire humanitarian situation but would require pauses in fighting

    Smoke rises from anchored boats
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    Ferrexpo PLC
    Ferrexpo chair urges Kyiv to spare miner in anti-oligarch campaign

    UK-listed group caught in Ukrainian authorities’ efforts to recover assets from billionaire founder Kostyantin Zhevago

    A Ferrexpo iron ore mine in Ukraine
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Instant InsightInstant Insight
    Poland’s democratic health appears better than many feared

    Despite the best efforts of PiS, this weekend’s election looks set to give Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform a route to power

    Donald Tusk celebrating exit poll results during Poland’s parliamentary election on Sunday night
  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    ‘Bottom of barrel’: Ukraine’s counteroffensive at risk from US aid delays

    Republican-led opposition to Kyiv’s next funding package could further hamper counteroffensive

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens as Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo speaks
  • Saturday, 7 October, 2023
    Paris
    Bedbug horror: coming to a cinema near you

    ‘La presse anglophone’ has seized on the damage to Paris’s glossy reputation as the pest infestation takes hold

    Close up of the thorax and head of a bedbug
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    News in-depthPoland
    Germany becomes scapegoat in Poland’s bitter election campaign

    Anti-German rhetoric is aimed at discrediting Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk

    A montage of Jaroslaw Kaczyński, Donald Tusk and the German and Polish flags
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Global InsightUkrainian politics
    Ukraine’s democracy is facing a wartime election test

    Zelenskyy has hinted presidential vote may still be possible next year, alarming civil society groups

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds his voting paper in his right hand above the ballot box as he casts his vote
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