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Victor Mallet is a journalist, commentator and author with more than three decades of experience in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently Paris bureau chief for Financial Times, and has been previously worked as Asia editor and Asia news editor based in Hong Kong. He has written books on the River Ganges and on the modernisation of south-east Asia.
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  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    European economy
    EU recovery fund ‘too slow and complicated’, says French minister

    Bruno Le Maire pushes for fiscal rules review amid ‘blockages’ in disbursing grants

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Portrait of a park: Paris’s Jardin du Luxembourg — a trail of the unexpected

    With its orchards, beehives and magnificent tributes to the greats of French culture and history, this Left Bank beauty is full of surprises

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    UK trade
    Brexit brings a diet of false promises to Parisian gourmands

    UK expatriates and some locals mourn the impact on food imports

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    France to impose Covid testing on EU travellers

    European leaders ponder tighter restrictions in fight against pandemic

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Biden-Harris: what you need to know
    Biden in the White House: which world leaders stand to lose out?

    Russia’s Putin, India’s Modi and the UK’s Johnson, will find relations with the US more challenging

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    UK fishing
    UK ports demand help for British fish exporters

    Operators call on London and Paris to sort out Brexit-related bureaucracy

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    Eurostar Group Ltd
    Eurostar calls for UK bailout after passenger numbers collapse

    Train operator that connects Britain to continent says there is a ‘real risk’ to its survival

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    Financial services
    Benjamin de Rothschild dies of heart attack at 57

    Inheritor of Edmond de Rothschild private bank had taken a back seat to wife Ariane

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    News in-depthFrench politics
    French left eyes a narrow path to power in 2022

    Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo seen as possible saviour for enfeebled Socialist party 

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  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    FT SeriesErdogan’s great game
    Erdogan’s great game: The Turkish problem on the EU’s doorstep

    More than 15 years since accession talks began, tensions are on the rise between Ankara and Brussels

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Disease control and prevention
    EU races to control Covid variant

    France and European neighbours face spread of highly infectious mutation from UK

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    News in-depthSexual misconduct allegations
    Child incest scandal shakes French intelligentsia 

    Prominent political analyst Olivier Duhamel resigns from Sciences Po after stepdaughter’s book 

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    US Capitol attack
    Western democracies stunned by images of unrest in Washington

    US allies breach diplomatic protocols to blame Trump for violence on Capitol Hill

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    France
    Fate of Pissarro painting revives row over Nazi loot

    French Holocaust survivor and Oklahoma museum tussle in court over Impressionist master’s work

  • Sunday, 27 December, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    Europe starts Covid-19 vaccination as new virus strain spreads

    EU health officials warn restrictions are likely to be tightened rather than relaxed

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    News in-depthBrexit
    EU-UK ties prove too important to lose as Brexit trade deal is sealed

    Both sides needed an agreement for economic and security reasons

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Cross-Channel freight traffic resumes after drivers test negative for Covid

    France insists everyone crossing from England must have been tested within 72 hours in bid to halt spread of new strain

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    UK business & economy
    UK faces days of disruption at English Channel crossing

    Britain struggles to return lorry drivers to France after Paris reopens border

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    France reopens border with UK after virus closure

    British army to test truck drivers for new Covid strain before letting them cross but backlog may last days

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Scramble to reopen Channel border as world retreats from UK

    Fears over new variant of coronavirus send markets lower and spur more countries to impose travel bans

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK isolated as countries ban travel and limit freight over Covid variant

    Britain and EU to hold separate emergency meetings on Monday to deal with escalating crisis

  • Saturday, 19 December, 2020
    Jeffrey Epstein
    Jeffrey Epstein associate held in France over rape allegation

    Former modelling agency boss Jean-Luc Brunel detained at Paris airport en route to Senegal

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Brexit
    French customs to patrol Eurostar as Brexit border chaos looms

    Paris introduces temporary checks as UK and France authorities yet to agree controls

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Emmanuel Macron tests positive for coronavirus

    Contact with French president prompts PM and leaders of Spain and Portugal to self-isolate

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Brexit
    Brexit stockpiling triggers cross-Channel freight crunch

    Delays caused by pre-Christmas rush and race to beat introduction of new UK-EU border

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