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Tony Barber

European Comment Editor

Tony Barber is European Comment 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.

In 2012 he was awarded the Medal of Gratitude by the Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk in recognition of his work in support of freedom and democracy in Poland. He wrote the introduction to Mud Sweeter Than Honey, a book on communist Albania by the author Margo Rejmer.

Email Tony Barber @TonyBarber8  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    Paying the price for European security Premium content

    Disputes persist over funding, procurement and the role of the EU in defence policy

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    China unleashes stimulus blitz

    Central bank cuts benchmark rate and unveils support for property and stock markets

  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Russian politics
    Putin casts his net over Stalin’s exonerated victims

    A legal review of rehabilitations combines propaganda with an insatiable impulse to rewrite Russian history

    People carry the portraits of the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during a memorial ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of his death
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    The centre holds in Ireland Premium content

    Tensions are rising over immigration ahead of the general election

    Ireland’s Taoiseach Simon Harris, left, with Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill, centre, and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    France and Germany: clouds darken at the dawn of a new EU era Premium content

    Political and economic ills are growing in bloc’s two main states as the next five-year leadership cycle starts in Brussels

    Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Austria, the far right and Russia Premium content

    Elections next month will determine whether the pro-Kremlin Freedom party will return to government

    Herbert Kickl
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Sweden breaks with its liberal past on migration Premium content

    EU governments face awkward choices over asylum-seekers, labour market shortages and integration of newcomers

    Migrants are guided onto a boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Media
    Resist ‘fake news’ but don’t exaggerate its power

    One hundred years on, the Zinoviev Letter illustrates how election results have deeper causes than disinformation

    Ben Hickey illustration of a snake wrapped around a pile of newspapers.
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Picking the next pope Premium content

    Vatican-watchers are debating who might succeed Francis at the head of a Catholic Church rife with internal tensions

    Pope Francis attends a special audience with altar servers in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Spiritual struggle or military tourism?

    Two authoritative histories shed modern light on two centuries of medieval crusades

    An image of men on horses fighting
  • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
    Europe Express
    Shadows of history on Poland’s foreign policy Premium content

    Relations with Ukraine and Germany are burdened by the past in ways that feed into domestic political disputes

    Donald Tusk speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the Battle of Monte Cassino
  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
    Europe Express
    The pillars of German security are shaking Premium content

    Political upheavals in France and the US are causing anxiety in Berlin

    French president Emmanuel Macron (L) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz participate in Working Session of the NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Russian politics
    Russian censors itch to trap zombie mice

    The demand to ban a satirical novel underlines the shrinking space for free expression under Putin

    Mouse book cover
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    ObituaryIsmail Kadare
    Ismail Kadare, Albanian author, 1936-2024

    A novelist who survived one of eastern Europe’s most vicious tyrannies and drew comparisons with Kafka and Orwell

    Ismail Kadare
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Viktor Orbán
    Hungary’s presidency is a symptom of deeper EU malaise

    Franco-German frictions and the advance of hard-right parties threaten trouble when Europe needs a common front

    Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    Serbia and Albania: precarious states in a volatile neighbourhood

    Two impressive new histories about the Balkan neighbours show how the traumas of the past have left deep traces in the present

  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    Le pari de la dissolution se retourne contre Emmanuel Macron

    L’extrême droite se rapproche du pouvoir et la gauche radicale évoque l’esprit de 1936, aux dépens du bloc centriste

    «Macron c’est toi qui est ubuesque», dit une pancarte
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    France’s political extremes exploit Macron’s weakness

    The far right scents an opportunity, the left evokes the spirit of 1936 and liberal democracy is squeezed in the middle

    “Macron it is you who is absurd”, a placard held by a protester reads
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: History

    Tony Barber selects his best mid-year reads

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    The EU’s post-elections future Premium content

    Hard choices await the 27-nation bloc over the next five years — and there’s always the risk of an unanticipated emergency

    A crowd holds up Ukrainian flags
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    Meloni’s hard-right bid to shake up the EU Premium content

    The Italian premier wants to upend the centrist consensus in Brussels but economic weakness limits her country’s influence

    Giorgia Meloni speaks via video link at a Vox rally
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    Europe Express
    Russia and Ukraine: two economies at war Premium content

    Government reshuffle underlines Putin’s militarisation effort as Kyiv fights on with western support

    A slogan in support of the Russian armed forces reads: ‘Price of Russia! Senior sergeant Sergei Prokofyev’ as an armoured vehicle passes by
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    EU enlargement
    Defiant regional leaders resist the road map to EU membership

    The heads of Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs, North Macedonia and Georgia oppose the steps needed to join the club

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Europe Express
    Pluses and minuses of the EU recovery fund Premium content

    More large-scale investment programmes are possible despite the mixed results of Europe’s post-pandemic plan

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    The First Cold War — when Russia and Britain were at odds

    Barbara Emerson examines how the two countries kept hostilities at bay and warns of the high-handedness of foreign imperialism

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