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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    ExplainerGlobal Economy
    Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

    Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane. See how actions taken by your central bank affect you

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Europe is about to make its biggest strategic mistake Premium content

    Control over Moscow’s blocked foreign reserves empowers the EU to shape how the Ukraine war ends

    1 hour ago
    A woman crouches on the damaged rooftop of a village school as she picks up a piece of shrapnel from a Shahed drone amid the rubble and debris from a recent bombing
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Turkish politics
    Turkey detains 37 in escalating crackdown on opposition to Erdoğan

    Hundreds more sought by authorities as they move to stifle dissent over arrest of popular Istanbul mayor

    2 hours ago
    Protesters gather in front of the municipality headquarters in Istanbul, waving Turkish flags and holding signs
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Herbert Smith Freehills
    Herbert Smith Freehills fined £465,000 over Russia sanctions breaches

    Treasury says law firm’s Moscow division paid £3.9mn to designated entities

    3 hours ago
    HSF’s offices
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Insurance
    Protectionism will help push up insurance prices, says Lloyd’s of London chief

    John Neal warns geopolitics and regulatory requirements will add to cost of policies

    Lloyd’s of London’s City HQ
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Europe Express
    Hungary breaks with the EU by seeking to turn Ukraine into ‘buffer zone’ Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Brussels’ plan to tighten carbon border taxes

    Hungary’s EU affairs minister János Bóka
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Markets InsightKaren Ward
    Is this the start of a period of European exceptionalism in markets?

    The very tight rein in all aspects of policy — fiscal, monetary and regulatory — is easing

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Luc Frieden
    Smarter rules will unlock the funds needed to pay for Europe’s security

    Complicated regulations have burdened businesses and deterred investment for too long

    Skyscrapers on the skyline in the financial district of Frankfurt
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Retail trading
    Retail investors take on hedge funds in Europe’s answer to ‘meme stock’ mania

    Small traders have piled in to defence companies targeted by short sellers, in an echo of 2021’s GameStop trade

    A stand host demonstrates the use of a Hensoldt virtual reality trainer for Stinger anti-aircraft missiles on display at the 2024 ILA Berlin Air Show A satellite dish in a ground network of satellites at the headquarters of Eutelsat Madeira Unipessoal Lda in Canial, Madeira, Portugal Employee Tobias Kasan works at a gear in a assembly hall of the German gear manufacturing company Renk in Augsburg, southern Germany
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Europe tries to fix its plumbing — and leave Starlink behind

    Many governments outside the US do not want to rely on Elon Musk’s satellite company

    Starlink in Ukraine
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    News in-depthUK local government finance
    UK’s second city drowns in rubbish as bin strikes continue

    Businesses fear that refuse piles will damage Birmingham’s reputation, as industrial action continues

  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    News in-depthTurkish politics
    Erdoğan’s move against main rival plunges Turkey into crisis

    Politicians and investors say arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu marks dangerous turning point in authoritarian slide

    Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, left,  and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, right
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Nuclear energy
    Iberdrola chair warns power prices will rise if Spain shuts nuclear plants

    Ignacio Galán urges Madrid to avoid repeating Germany’s ‘big mistake’

    A nuclear power plant in Trillo, Spain
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
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    Poland and UK discuss defence spending as Europe moves to re-arm

    Finance minister Andrzej Domański calls for smarter funding as continent moves to bolster its military power

    Soldiers from Poland and Britain stand in front of tanks at the Warsaw Armoured Brigade in Warsaw, Poland
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
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    ‘The caterpillar’: British banks’ £50bn answer to falling rates

    The UK’s largest high street lenders have deployed hedging strategies to smooth volatile earnings

    Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest are expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries of a repricing of interest rate swaps
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
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    Italy’s paper hub loses its story, page by page

    Fabriano’s struggles symbolise industrial decline amid high energy and labour costs

    Worker preparing Fabriano drawing pad sheets before they are sealed
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    LexEuropean equities
    Don’t call European stocks ‘exceptional’ Premium content

    Region’s new growth story comes as US stumbles

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    EU trade
    EU probes BYD plant in Hungary over unfair Chinese subsidies

    Investigation comes as Viktor Orbán has attracted large Chinese investments to his country

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    UK property
    One-bed flats unaffordable for key workers across half of England

    New nurses, teachers and healthcare assistants priced out of market completely in London, analysis of official figures finds

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  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    UK trade
    UK must be more ambitious in rebuilding EU relations, says business group

    British Chambers of Commerce head says recent warm words about post-Brexit reset are ‘not nearly enough’

    Shevaun Haviland
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    US could take over Ukrainian nuclear power plants, Trump tells Zelenskyy

    White House says deal would offer ‘the best protection’ for the country’s infrastructure

    Flames and thick smoke engulf a building in Krasnopillia, Sumy region, Ukraine on March 19 2025. The structure is heavily damaged, with fire visible through the windows and debris scattered in the foreground.
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The alarming detention of the Turkish president’s rival

    Move against Istanbul mayor brings fears of authoritarian slide by Erdoğan

    Supporters of the Mayor of Istanbul demonstrate in front of the Turkish police barricade against his detention over a corruption probe in Istanbul
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    LexTurkish economy
    Turkish assets take a confidence hit Premium content

    Crackdown on political opposition will shake international investors’ faith in Ankara

    A supporter holds a poster of Ekrem İmamoğlu in front of a Turkish police barricade during a demonstration in Istanbul
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Hannah Bernard
    Female-led start-ups are increasingly starved of funding

    Investment decisions in the UK follow the same outdated patterns — even in booming AI

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves attends a women in economy event in Downing Street
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Turkish politics
    Turkish police detain Erdoğan’s main political rival

    Stocks fall as Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a key challenger to president, held

    Ekrem İmamoğlu speaks at a rally with a large Turkish flag in the background
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