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Ben Hall

Europe Editor

Ben Hall is Europe editor of the FT, writing interviews, analysis and comment and managing the European network of correspondents. He has worked at the FT since 2000. He was previously world news editor, Europe news editor, Paris correspondent, UK political correspondent, deputy comment editor and a leader writer.

​Sign up to Europe Express, the FT's premium newsletter on European affairs, to receive every other Saturday Ben's digest of one consequential issue impacting the continent, packed with data analysis and deep research.

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  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    Europe Express
    Dutch centrists come roaring back but far right remains strong

    Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is down but not out after liberal gains in elections

    Premium content
    Geert Wilders speaks to a crowd of journalists holding microphones and cameras outside the PVV faction room.
  • Saturday, 18 October, 2025
    Europe Express
    Europe slowly awakens to its entry into US-China wars

    Dutch seizure of a Chinese-owned chipmaker show EU’s balancing act between Washington and Beijing under strain

    Premium content
    A worker pours molten lanthanum into a mould at the Jinyuan Company smelting workshop, with glowing metal and industrial equipment visible.
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    Nexperia
    Dutch seizure of chipmaker followed US ultimatum over Chinese chief

    Takeover of Nexperia plunges Netherlands into US-China tech war

    Toni Hrkac, wearing a cleanroom suit, holds a box with wafers on a semiconductor production line at Nexperia
  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russia strikes disable 60% of Ukraine’s gas production ahead of winter

    Moscow’s intensified drone and missile campaign seeks ‘to break our spirit’, says head of state energy group

    Trucks and surrounding structures engulfed in flames and thick smoke at night following a drone attack in the Odesa region.
  • Sunday, 5 October, 2025
    Global InsightCzech Republic
    The political triumph of a rightwing billionaire Eurosceptic

    Andrej Babiš’s Czech election victory boosts central Europe’s disruptive potential, but he will struggle to shift EU policy

    Andrej Babiš stands in front of a large screen displaying his face before a televised debate ahead of Czech parliamentary elections.
  • Saturday, 4 October, 2025
    Europe Express
    Europe Express: Warning shots over the drone wall

    European leaders question the viability of Ursula von der Leyen’s initiative

    Premium content
    Mette Frederiksen and Ursula von der Leyen stand together smiling in front of a sunflower backdrop.
  • Tuesday, 30 September, 2025
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Ukraine races to intercept Russian drones

    Semi-automated interceptors can fill a gap in air defences — and help Europe address its own aerial vulnerabilities

    Shahed drone, main; interceptor drone, right; and a Danish military mobile radar installation area on Amager island, left
  • Tuesday, 30 September, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    EU moves to advance Ukraine’s accession by sidestepping Hungary

    Brussels advises Kyiv to advance technical work despite Budapest holding up talks

    Volodymyr Zelensky and Viktor Orban stand side by side at podiums in front of Ukrainian, Hungarian, and EU flags.
  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
    News in-depthEU defence
    Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities

    Job of protecting critical national infrastructure grows more complex as Russia tests Nato members

    Silhouettes of drones layered over the European Union flag with yellow stars on a blue background
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    European officials fear Trump is preparing to blame them for Ukraine failure

    Poland’s Tusk warns new US posture conceals a ‘shift of responsibility’

    Donald Trump speaks in front of U.S. and Ukrainian flags during the UN General Assembly.
  • Saturday, 20 September, 2025
    Europe Express
    Ukraine without America

    Trump’s peace process is going nowhere in the face of Putin’s intransigence and Europe must take on heavy lifting to support Kyiv

    Premium content
    Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shake hands and smile while meeting outdoors, with uniformed personnel and stairs in the background.
  • Wednesday, 17 September, 2025
    News in-depthEU defence
    Europe turns to Ukrainian tech for ‘drone wall’ against Russia

    Billions available for governments to purchase battle-tested technology to fill Nato’s security gap, says Brussels

    Drone pilot with callsign Rubik operates a FPV drone using a control unit and screen in a field during a training flight.
  • Friday, 12 September, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    US urges G7 to impose up to 100% tariffs on China and India over Russian oil

    Finance ministers discuss Washington’s proposal aimed at pushing Moscow to agree Ukraine peace deal

    An oil tanker docked at the Sheskharis complex in Novorossiysk, Russia, with cranes and shipping containers visible in the background
  • Thursday, 11 September, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US lifts some Belarus sanctions in return for prisoners release

    Easing restrictions on Belavia airline is first step towards ‘full normalisation’ despite Minsk aiding Moscow in its war against Ukraine

    A Belavia Boeing 737-800 aircraft in blue and white livery ascends after take-off against a grey sky.
  • Tuesday, 9 September, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russian air strike kills Ukrainian pensioners

    Civilians including retirees waiting to collect benefits killed in eastern Ukraine, according to authorities

    Bodies lying on the ground amid debris and damaged trees after an air strike in Yarova, Donetsk region
  • Sunday, 7 September, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russia launches record mass drone attack on Ukraine

    Moscow’s forces fire 805 drones in one night, striking government building in Kyiv

    A missile explodes in the sky above apartment buildings as a large plume of smoke rises from another part of the city in Kyiv.
  • Saturday, 6 September, 2025
    Europe Express
    France’s curse and Bayrou’s political suicide

    Political woes and a ballooning deficit leave Paris searching for stability at home and credibility abroad

    Premium content
    Emmanuel Macron speaks with Francois Bayrou, both in suits, as Macron gestures with his hand
  • Saturday, 23 August, 2025
    Europe Express
    Europe at Trump’s table

    Diplomatic success in Washington suggest unity is paying dividends and counters narrative of submission to US

    Premium content
    Donald Trump gestures while speaking with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Ursula von der Leyen, and Mark Rutte inside the White House.
  • Tuesday, 19 August, 2025
    Instant InsightWar in Ukraine
    Trump’s Ukraine peace juggernaut careers onwards

    Lack of clarity over US security guarantees shows primacy of form over substance

    US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on August 18 2025 in Washington
  • Monday, 18 August, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine offers Trump $100bn weapons deal to win security guarantees

    Document seen by FT lays out Kyiv’s proposals to US president at crucial White House meeting

    US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on August 18 2025 in Washington
  • Friday, 15 August, 2025
    Political Fix podcast28 min listen
    Starmer's superpower: soft power?

    UK diplomacy from the Cotswolds to Alaska

  • Thursday, 14 August, 2025
    The Big Read
    Zelenskyy faces his ‘moment of maximum pressure’

    Weakened at home, the Ukrainian president must try to shape the Alaska talks from afar as battlefield losses mount

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Wednesday, 13 August, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Trump threatens ‘very severe consequences’ if Putin refuses to end Ukraine war

    US president allays European concerns with focus on ceasefire as Alaska talks near

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz speak to media
  • Friday, 1 August, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Germany to send more US air defences to Ukraine

    Berlin will supply Kyiv with much-needed Patriot launchers as Russia increases its aerial assaults on Ukrainian cities

    A woman receives assistance as she leaves the apartment building hit during Russian missile and drone strikes in Kyiv
  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
    Bribery and corruption
    Ukrainian oligarchs ordered to repay $1.9bn over bank fraud

    High Court in England rules against Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov in victory for Kyiv

    People walk past a branch of PrivatBank in Kyiv
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