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Berlin Correspondent

Sam Jones is the FT’s acting Berlin correspondent, covering German foreign, defence and security policy. He also covers Austria and Switzerland. Sam joined the FT in 2007, and has worked in a variety of roles including several years as the newspaper’s international defence and security editor (during which he covered the rise of Isis and Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine) and as a member of its investigations team. Sam has won several journalism awards in the US and UK, most recently for his work on the Wirecard scandal.
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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Media
    Austrian left pledges free newspaper access for young readers

    Social democrats promise to fund media subscriptions for those aged 16-30 in effort to tackle disinformation

    A mobile news stand in Vienna
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    European Union
    EU approves nature law in face of Austrian legal threat

    Vienna contests move by climate minister Leonore Gewessler to back environmental protection bill

    Leonore Gewessler
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Germany
    Germany to launch limited military service in push to be ‘war ready’

    Increased Russian threat prompts move to Swedish-style selective approach to army recruitment

    German soldiers in front of a military vehicle
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Inside BusinessWorld Economic Forum
    Schwab’s step back prompts fresh questions over Davos

    It is an awkward time for globalist gatherings of business and politics

    Klaus Schwab speaks at Davos in January
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Macron says Ukraine should be able to target Russia with western arms

    French president calls for restrictions on Kyiv’s use of longer-range munitions supplied by its allies to be eased

    Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz at the Franco-German council of ministers meeting at Meseberg Palace, north of Berlin
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    German politics
    Scandals deprive Germany’s AfD of breakthrough in local polls

    Far-right party increases vote share in Thuringia but centre-right CDU is overall winner

    Voters at polling booths in Thuringia in eastern Germany
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Alternative for Germany
    EU’s far-right bloc expels Germany’s AfD

    Top candidate’s interview defending SS prompts Alternative for Germany’s ejection from European parliament group

    Maximilian Krah listens while in the European parliament in Strasbourg, France
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    World Economic Forum
    Davos forum founder Schwab to step down

    Founder turned World Economic Forum into must-attend conference and €500mn business

    Klaus Schwab speaks at an event ahead of the World Economic Forum in 2018
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why von der Leyen doesn’t want to join the US in a trade war with China Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: is Austria’s top green politician a compulsive liar?

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    European banks
    ECB pressures banks to speed up Russia exits on fear of US action

    Regulator has requested detailed plans from lenders including Italy’s UniCredit and Austria’s Raiffeisen

    Outside view of European Central Bank building
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    German politics
    AfD leader in Thuringia convicted of deliberately using Nazi slogan

    Björn Höcke fined for invoking language of Nazi’s paramilitary wing, the brown-shirted storm troopers

    Björn Höcke
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Oleg Deripaska
    US imposes sanctions on entities involved in Raiffeisen’s aborted Deripaska deal

    The parties had conducted an ‘attempted sanctions evasion scheme’ connected to the Russian oligarch, Washington says

    Oleg Deripaska at an event in St Petersburg in 2021
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Raiffeisen Bank International AG
    Austria’s Raiffeisen scraps Oleg Deripaska asset swap deal

    Western lender with largest operations in Russia decides to ‘walk away’ from deal after pressure from regulators

    People walking in front of a Raiffeisen bank in Moscow
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Siemens Gamesa
    Siemens Energy announces new chief and job cuts to revive wind business

    Shares rise 13% after fourfold rise in quarterly group operating profit

    A wind turbine at a Siemens factory in Cuxhaven, Germany
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    Russian espionage
    Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn

    Assessments suggest Kremlin agents preparing covert bombings, arson and attacks on infrastructure

    Montage of map of Europe and the Kremlin complex
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    German politics
    Germany denounces Russia for cyber attack on Olaf Scholz’s party

    Foreign minister vows ‘consequences’ for 2023 hack targeting Social Democrats

    Annalena Baerbock giving a speech
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Top UN court rejects Nicaragua’s call to block German support for Israel

    Latin American country had sought interim restrictions on military and financial support over war in Gaza

    A view of the ICJ chamber
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    European Parliament elections
    German far right tries to brush off spy scandals

    Voters start to punish AfD in opinion polls ahead of European parliament elections

    Maximilian Krah, member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    News in-depthPolitical espionage
    German spycatchers raise game against China and Russia

    Recent arrests only ‘tip of the iceberg’, with hundreds more operatives believed to be ‘up to mischief’ in Germany

    A composite illustration with handcuffs, a classified file, a person in shadows looking at a phone and the seal of the BfV
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Political espionage
    German staffer in EU parliament arrested on China spying charges

    Employee of far-right AfD’s lead candidate is latest figure to be accused of passing information to Beijing

    A man walks near the entrance of the European parliament in Brussels
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Chinese espionage
    Germany accuses couple of spying for China

    A husband and wife team allegedly conspired to smuggle sensitive military technology out of Europe on Beijing’s orders

    German interior minister Nancy Faeser
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Germany arrests suspected Russian spies over bombing plot

    Two men held for alleged plan to sabotage military sites including a base training Ukrainian soldiers

    A Bayreuth town sign
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Raiffeisen Bank International AG
    Raiffeisen warns ECB plans could derail plan to sell Russian arm

    Bank has reduced Russian loan book but profits and headcount have increased since full-scale Ukraine invasion

    A Raiffeisen Bank branch
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Ukraine
    Foreign investor in Ukraine accuses officials of corruption

    Anglo-German businessman makes extortion claims against figures in security services and presidential administration

    Arnulf Damerau
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Rene Benko
    Austria investigates René Benko for fraud

    Anti-corruption prosecutors are probing a loan made by a private bank to Signa property group

    René Benko
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