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Tony Barber

Europe editor

Tony Barber is Europe Editor of the Financial Times. He is a former foreign correspondent in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, the former Soviet Union, the US and the former Yugoslavia.

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  • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Brexit transforms the Conservative voter base

    Shift is certain to complicate the actions of a future Boris Johnson government

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
    Ukraine conflict
    West’s choice: back Ukraine or reconcile with Russia

    Vladimir Putin’s support for secessionist rebels has backfired

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Best Books of the Year 2019
    Best books of 2019: History

    Tony Barber selects his must-read titles

  • Monday, 2 December, 2019
    Climate change
    Climate change turns political spectrum green

    Old parties switch stance as they realise how many votes are in the environment

  • Sunday, 1 December, 2019
    Instant InsightGerman election
    SPD result heralds the end of Germany’s ‘grand coalition’

    Leadership vote looks likely to hasten Merkel’s exit and bring the Green party into power

  • Monday, 25 November, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Conservative party manifesto plays down rightwing populism

    Hard Brexit choices will have to be made between retaining access to EU markets and ‘taking back control’

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Russia and the UK general election

    Moscow will surely be satisfied with almost any conceivable poll result

  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    The UK election campaign, Brexit and European security

    Lack of debate about defence contrasts with intense discussions in Berlin, Paris and other EU capitals

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    Eurozone economy
    Germany’s eurozone gambit could meet a swift death

    Building a more effective, closely united Europe has never presented a bigger challenge

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  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    EU sees more risks than reassurance in UK election

    Bloc’s leaders have every reason to doubt poll will bring clarity on Brexit they crave

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2019
    Geopolitics
    Rise of autocracies spells end to the west’s global supremacy

    The post-1945 rules-based order is being eroded and will never return

  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2019
    European Union
    New EU team must up its game on foreign policy

    The bloc’s mishandling of both Syria and the Balkans exposes a fundamental weakness

  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    EU is ready to move on from Brexit

    Keeping a quarrelsome UK inside the tent holds little appeal, even for friends of London

  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Brexit raises the spectre of the UK’s break-up

    Pressures build over the futures of Northern Ireland and Scotland 

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    The broken dreams of 1989

    Four books examine what went wrong as liberal idealism dissolved into blinkered nationalism

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Buccaneer Johnson struggles to strike a deal with EU

    Government has in mind a substantially different vision of long-term EU-UK relations than Theresa May did

  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Last-minute Brexit deal is no long-term answer

    Britain needs to resolve Irish question if it wants a low-tax model and closer US ties

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Germany and France brace for another Brexit delay

    No agreement seems likely before or during the forthcoming Brussels summit

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
    Populism in Europe
    The legacy of 1989 was western complacency

    As it shed its communist past, the east was told to embrace a flawed model

  • Friday, 27 September, 2019
    European Central Bank
    German scepticism of ECB reveals eurozone paradox

    Berlin remains wary of being the paymaster for a ‘transfer union’

  • Friday, 27 September, 2019
    ReviewHistory books
    How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter — the tyranny of strongmen

    A timely and enjoyable look at the personality of dictators and the need to defend democracy

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Europeans hail victory for UK rule of law

    Supreme Court ruling seen as landmark decision that brightens outlook for liberal democracy

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    EU foresees a US-UK axis after Brexit

    Withdrawal poses more than short-term challenge of whether to do deal with Britain

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
    Greek politics
    Reasons for moderate optimism about Greece

    The political system has proved resilient but the pace of reform must not slacken

  • Monday, 9 September, 2019
    Brexit Briefing
    Boris Johnson and Matteo Salvini: two peas in a pod?

    Each is gambling that in these testing times his version of populism will triumph

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