Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s a challenging time to be a UK perma-bear, what with the FTSE 100 starting the year on a high and reassuring updates from high street bellwethers such as Next. Hope for the pessimists might … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is deputy head of the Middle East and north Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations For more than two weeks, protests have roiled Iran. The demonstrations were … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and a former civil servant, including at the Treasury Despite her avowed intention of bringing the UK into line with international norms by holding … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nordic diplomats rejected US President Donald Trump’s claims of Russian and Chinese vessels operating near Greenland, which he has invoked to justify his desire to seize the vast Arctic island from Denmark. Two top Nordic diplomats … Read more
The EU is demanding that any future British government pays significant financial compensation if they quit a post-Brexit “reset” deal as part of negotiations with Sir Keir Starmer. Brussels has included a termination clause that would require London to pay a high level of restitution if they chose to exit a proposed EU-UK “veterinary agreement” … Read more
Donald Trump’s sweeping order for US defence companies to invest more in new factories or be forced to limit shareholder returns is fraught with risk, industry experts have warned. The US president’s executive order on Wednesday outlined curbs on dividend payments, share buybacks and executive pay but offered little guidance or detail of how performance … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Companies are borrowing in the US bond market at the fastest pace since the Covid-19 pandemic, as Wall Street kicks off what is expected to be a record year of debt sales thanks to AI … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran has warned the US and Israel not to intervene militarily to support protests that have spread across the Islamic republic as President Donald Trump said Washington was “ready to help”. As two weeks of … Read more
As foreign minister of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro travelled to Damascus in 2007 for a highly publicised meeting with then-president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, en route to Tehran. Maduro was ostensibly in the region to strengthen his country’s ties with others similarly hostile to Washington. But behind closed doors, his visit had another purpose: a secret … Read more
Nato’s silence in response to Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland has prompted alarm among European capitals fearful that the alliance is failing to defend the rights of Denmark. It has not issued a public statement asserting Denmark and Greenland’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, or responded to the US president’s stated ambition for the vast … Read more