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Tony Barber

European affairs commentator

Tony Barber is Europe 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.

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  • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard — a pioneer of European unification

    The first English-language biography of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi marvels at how many of his ideas have come to fruition

  • Sunday, 2 May, 2021
    Napoleon Bonaparte
    Napoleon’s legend is alive and as divisive as ever

    Two hundred years after his death, debate continues over whether he was a tyrant or reformer

  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Tony Barber’s fantasy dinner: a 15th-century feast in Sardinia

    The FT’s European comment editor assembles a Russian poet, an atheist priest and Shakespeare’s Rosalind for a night of sparkling debate

  • Monday, 26 April, 2021
    EU enlargement
    The baleful phantom of border changes haunts the Balkans

    Instability and antagonisms pervade the region a quarter of a century after the Yugoslav wars

  • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
    German election
    German politics is greening in unpredictable ways

    September’s elections may bring the Greens and fresh thinking to Berlin’s foreign and economic policies

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Northern Ireland
    Peace in Northern Ireland needs its guarantors

    All sides have a responsibility to ease tensions but the biggest, post-Brexit, rests with the UK and EU

  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    European Union
    Europe’s Covid response risks snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

    Vaccination setbacks and uncertainty over post-pandemic recovery fund bode ill for the bloc

  • Sunday, 14 March, 2021
    Instant InsightGerman politics
    CDU stumbles as the Merkel era draws to its close

    Germany’s centre-right is in trouble six months before Bundestag elections

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    EU eastern tensions
    Europe’s patience with Viktor Orban starts to wear thin

    Hungarian leader may struggle to continue playing off Moscow and Beijing against the west

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  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Geopolitics
    The first task of democracies is to put their own house in order

    Joe Biden’s planned summit and Boris Johnson’s ‘D10’ must not turn into anti-Chinese fronts

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Special ReportLuxembourg: Data and Innovation
    Luxembourg’s grand plan for an advanced digital society

    One of Europe’s smallest states has big ambitions to back private-sector innovation with government-led research. Can it succeed?

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    Geopolitics
    Germany’s bridges to Russia split open Europe

    Outreach to Moscow risks ignoring the concerns of central and eastern EU countries

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    What pagans, Putin and the Volga teach us about Russia

    A mighty river and nationalist myths loom large in these two fascinating history books by Janet M Hartley and Mark Galeotti

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    French politics
    The culture of silence that abets child abuse

    Scandals in France and beyond show how crime hides behind power and fame

  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    Populism in Europe
    Europe’s far right is often its own worst enemy

    Anti-establishment populists in the Netherlands and Estonia are on the back foot

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    ReviewHistory books
    Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer — conflicted Germany

    Born out of war, the empire forged by Bismarck struggled to find peace with itself

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    Instant InsightChristian Democratic Union Germany
    Merkel’s centrist legacy hangs over the new CDU leader

    Important questions remain about how the party will fight September’s Bundestag elections

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Italian politics
    Political intrigue snarls Italy as fateful choices loom

    Leaders should focus on making the best use of the EU recovery fund

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    Russian politics
    A bleak year looms for Russian dissenters

    Western support for civil society must be carefully calibrated

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    ObituaryJohn le Carré
    John le Carré, author, 1931-2020

    Writer of exquisite spy novels who probed the ethical boundaries of espionage and empire

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    A deep dive into Europe’s 20th-century history

    Dominique Reill and Paul Betts enhance our understanding of the era with books on postwar life and the Fiume crisis

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Terrorism in Germany
    Germany wakes up to the far-right terror threat

    New government measures aim to combat violent extremism

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Eastern Europe
    Defiant women take on ageing autocrats and machine politicians

    Female leaders and activists spearhead change in central and eastern Europe

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: History

    Tony Barber selects his must-read titles 

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    ObituaryRobert Fisk
    Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent and author, 1946-2020

    An intrepid, polemical reporter who made his career in the Middle East

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