QUENTIN PEEL
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Quentin Peel is international affairs editor of the Financial Times. He is also an associate editor, responsible for leader and feature writing.
Quentin has worked at the FT since 1975. Between 1976 and 1994 he served successively as southern Africa correspondent, Africa editor, European Community correspondent and Brussels bureau chief, Moscow correspondent, and chief correspondent in Germany. On his return to London he became foreign editor. He took up his present position in September 1998.
He was born in July 1948 and educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he studied economics, with French and German. He is married, with five children. - -
Getting Our Way
Sir Christopher Meyer writes a history book, a retelling of ‘500 years of adventure and intrigue’ in British diplomacy, and pleads for a coherent foreign policy, says Quentin Peel
Britain sets a high bar for incomprehension in Europe
If Downing Street and the Foreign Office are tone deaf on European politics, the UK Conservative party seems to be stone deaf, writes Quentin Peel
Nato’s dilemma in face of Russian muscle
In the long run, the alliance’s key question is how to deal with Moscow. This has the potential to open up divisions not only between the US and Europe but within Europe – between its east and west
Global Insight: dog that does not bark
Nato and the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation – China and Russia, plus several central Asian states – have every reason to co-operate on stabilising Afghanistan but neither wants to make the first move
Global Insight: Merkel to stay the course
The German chancellor is a ‘marathon runner’: she does deals, and forges coalitions, but never loses sight of her goals. Getting Lisbon approved is a big one, writes Quentin Peel
Global Insight: Europe’s left is failing
Across the main capitals, the traditional parties of the centre-left are in retreat. Germany’s Social Democratic party has gone down to its worst postwar defeat and the UK Labour party is struggling in the polls
Gaddafi’s speech a mere sideshow to main event
When Muammer Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, rose to speak at the UN General Assembly this week, no one knew quite what to expect. He has ruled his country for the past 40 years but has never bothered to attend the UN before
Global Insight: East Europe’s US love cools
European attitudes are turning back to front, the east becoming less Atlanticist, and less instinctively pro-American, than ‘old Europe’ in the west
The Red Flag
This hefty history of communism attempts to understand what made the system tick and why it succeeded for so long in spite of its flaws, writes Quentin Peel
Moldovans want to have it both ways
The country is caught in a geopolitical contest for influence between Russia and the EU, in which the US and China are also taking a very close interest, writes Quentin Peel
