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Tony Barber

European affairs commentator

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, 22 October, 2020
    European Union
    Double standards on corruption bode ill for the EU

    Centre-right parties protect Bulgaria despite widespread graft and worries about €750bn fund

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Catholic Church
    Power struggles entangle the Vatican

    Battlegrounds are alleged financial crimes, sexual abuse scandals and Pope Francis’s reform efforts

  • Sunday, 4 October, 2020
    EU immigration
    EU’s new migrant ‘pact’ is as squalid as its refugee camps

    Governments need to share responsibility for asylum seekers, beyond merely ejecting the unwanted

  • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    The Hitler Conspiracies — why are Nazi myths flourishing?

    Richard J Evans’s book demolishes the myth of Hitler’s postwar life in South America and other Nazi theories

  • Tuesday, 22 September, 2020
    Instant InsightItalian politics
    Italy experiments with a smaller parliament

    More institutional reforms will be needed to make a success of the initiative

  • Tuesday, 25 August, 2020
    Russian politics
    Poison is the crudest way to repress dissent in Russia

    Alleged attack on Alexei Navalny may prove a political miscalculation but it is unlikely to backfire on the perpetrators

  • Tuesday, 18 August, 2020
    Belarus
    Belarus sheds the carapace of dictatorship

    Mass protests in support of freedom are neither anti-Russian nor pro-western

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    Spanish politics
    Juan Carlos, a troubled monarchy and the crisis of modern Spain

    Constitutional compromises are under pressure and the state structures need reform

  • Monday, 3 August, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy, by David Broder

    An expert dissection of the trends that account for the Italian League’s revival

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  • Sunday, 26 July, 2020
    Ukrainian politics
    A hard road ahead for Zelensky in Ukraine

    Sympathy for the president in western capitals and the IMF is now tempered by concern

  • Friday, 24 July, 2020
    ObituaryLord Hutton
    Brian Hutton, judge and barrister, 1931-2020

    Chaired the controversial inquiry into the death of scientist David Kelly

  • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    Napoleon & de Gaulle — a history of France’s larger-than-life heroes

    Patrice Gueniffey’s splendidly entertaining account of two leaders who transcended a divided France

  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
    EU economy
    EU recovery fund fight is about shaping the bloc’s future

    The 27 members are struggling to find a shared vision of ‘economic sovereignty’

  • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    New light on the dark interwar years

    Revolution and hope were followed by depression and dictatorship — but today’s wave of nationalist populism is not necessarily a rerun of those times

  • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
    Russian politics
    Vladimir Putin has just done a Brezhnev

    The president has secured his future rule but he is straining his social contract with the Russian people

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    Brexit Briefing
    UK and EU lock horns over state aid Premium

    Boris Johnson’s taste for economic intervention departs from Thatcherism

  • Sunday, 28 June, 2020
    Instant InsightPopulism in Europe
    Poland’s run-off election to force candidates to reach beyond their bases

    Second vote between Duda and Trzaskowski will test limits of rightwing populism

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
    Summer books of 2020: History

    Tony Barber selects his best mid-year reads

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    Brexit Briefing
    Why does the UK always pin its hopes on Germany? Premium

    London has never understood how the EU works, says former ambassador

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    Special ReportInvesting in Serbia
    Path to EU strewn with missteps and some members’ doubts

    Slow structural and political reform combines with waning EU influence in lockdown

  • Tuesday, 16 June, 2020
    Brexit Briefing
    The slow, rocky road to a modest EU-UK deal Premium

    An accord by October is possible but it will be limited in scope

  • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
    Brexit Briefing
    Long shadow of Brexit hangs over UK antivirus measures Premium

    Campaigning political style is not the same as governing

  • Thursday, 4 June, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse

    A lucid account of Il Duce’s warmaking, of pointless conflict that did Italy nothing but harm

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    Brexit Briefing
    EU integration plans underline growing divergence with UK Premium

    Pandemic is putting the two sides on different paths

  • Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
    Brexit Briefing
    Like Brexit, the Dominic Cummings affair is about trust Premium

    Boris Johnson’s government is hoist with its own populist petard

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