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Valentina Pop
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FT Europe news editor. Brussels veteran. The name is real.
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 11d
on.ft.com/42OsIKr German lawmakers object to arms contracts without open tenders
German lawmakers object to arms contracts without open tenders
[FREE TO READ] Budget committee stalls government plans to speed up defence procurement
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 12d
on.ft.com/48yqMJE Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities
Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities
[FREE TO READ] Job of protecting critical national infrastructure grows more complex as Russia tests Nato members
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 12d
on.ft.com/4npbSdv Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk @chassnews.bsky.social
Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk
[FREE TO READ] State modernisation minister Karsten Wildberger promises to bring about digital age in country clinging to fax machines
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 15d
on.ft.com/4gxC2rG Denmark suffers ‘serious attack’ on infrastructure with drones closing airport @richardmilne.ft.com
Denmark suffers ‘serious attack’ on infrastructure with drones closing airport
[FREE TO READ] PM Mette Frederiksen refuses to rule out Russian involvement as Nato and EU blame Moscow’s ‘reckless’ behaviour in recent airspace breaches
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 15d
on.ft.com/4pCLGNM ‘We had a stampede’: Irish surge across border for weight-loss jabs @judewebber.bsky.social
‘We had a stampede’: Irish surge across border for weight-loss jabs
[FREE TO READ] Historic smuggling haven of Newry plays host to bargain-hunters from the Republic looking for new legal drugs
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 15d
on.ft.com/46xNbEf Chinese cargo ship docks in Russian-occupied Crimea @christopherjm.ft.com @chriscook.news
Chinese cargo ship docks in Russian-occupied Crimea
[FREE TO READ] Heng Yang 9 stops in Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, which has been under western sanctions since 2014
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 17d
on.ft.com/47NTUfL EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system @bmoens.bsky.social @paolatamma.bsky.social
EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system
[FREE TO READ] Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 17d
on.ft.com/4gwD4US In charts: Can Germany afford its €1.35tn welfare state? @chassnews.bsky.social @olafstorbeck.ft.com
In charts: Can Germany afford its €1.35tn welfare state?
[FREE TO READ] Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants benefit cuts, but his coalition partners are pushing back
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 19d
on.ft.com/4nFlZur Germany considers dropping France from flagship fighter jet project
Germany considers dropping France from flagship fighter jet project
[FREE TO READ] Crisis over weapons programme crucial to European defence ambitions deepens as Berlin considers alternative partners
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · 19d
on.ft.com/4muUNh1 EU plans to unlock €550mn for Hungary to secure Russian energy sanctions
EU plans to unlock €550mn for Hungary to secure Russian energy sanctions
[FREE TO READ] Brussels seeks Viktor Orbán’s backing to bring forward ban on Russian LNG and lower oil price cap
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Sep 6
on.ft.com/4nlEBzu Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance
Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance
[FREE TO READ] A picture of her grandmother posted on social media sent the author to the archives of Albania’s former security services — and raised difficult questions about who watches us today
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 24
Germany’s central bank is considering abandoning its landmark brutalist headquarters in Frankfurt amid regulatory criticism of a multibillion euro redevelopment of the asbestos-stricken site, where half of the country’s gold reserves are stored.
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Asbestos, gold and spiralling costs: Bundesbank weighs abandoning Frankfurt headquarters
[FREE TO READ] A €3.3bn refurbishment of the brutalist site has come under fire from Germany’s Federal Audit Office
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 24
The stories of Hamlet and Rørek are one. Without Scandinavian sagas and priestly chroniclers in Kyiv we would not have the famous Shakespearean play,and Russians would lack their origin legend. To understand them is to see how deception and self-deception began a war and worsens it
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The myths that made Putin’s war
[FREE TO READ] The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 20
on.ft.com/3V9Zhyc ‘Red lines’: Ukraine fears more Russian aggression if it gives up land
‘Red lines’: Ukraine fears more Russian aggression if it gives up land
[FREE TO READ] Zelenskyy’s anxiety over territorial concessions increases in the face of Putin’s maximalist demands
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 15
on.ft.com/3HDgehg Domes, prayers and protests: Anchorage awaits Trump-Putin summit
Domes, prayers and protests: Anchorage awaits Trump-Putin summit
[FREE TO READ] Ukrainian refugees in Alaska have mixed feelings about US and Russian leaders’ meeting
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 6
on.ft.com/45kTRVH Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first post-communist president, dies at 95
Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first post-communist president, dies at 95
[FREE TO READ] Former apparatchik played leading role in regime change and country’s pivot to west but also brutally repressed dissent
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 6
on.ft.com/4fxKarW Meloni revives €13bn Sicilian bridge as part of defence planning
Meloni revives €13bn Sicilian bridge as part of defence planning
[FREE TO READ] Italian government aims to add decades-old project to increased Nato spending pledge
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 6
on.ft.com/457vdZW Dmitry Medvedev’s long march from liberal hope to nuclear threat
Dmitry Medvedev’s long march from liberal hope to nuclear threat
[FREE TO READ] Former Russian president goads Donald Trump with bellicose social media posts
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 5
on.ft.com/45qcMyx Donald Trump readies fresh US sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet
Donald Trump readies fresh US sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet
[FREE TO READ] US president has threatened Vladimir Putin with punitive measures to force him to end war in Ukraine
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 4
on.ft.com/4oqMHIy Donald Trump’s Fed move is ‘wrong’, says German finance minister
Donald Trump’s Fed move is ‘wrong’, says German finance minister
[FREE TO READ] Lars Klingbeil criticises US president hours before meeting Treasury secretary in Washington
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Aug 4
on.ft.com/4lumPJ7 Shoved into vans, slashing tyres: Ukrainians balk at conscription
Shoved into vans, slashing tyres: Ukrainians balk at conscription
[FREE TO READ] Kyiv’s top brass under fire over violent recruitment practices
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Jul 30
on.ft.com/45sXeLy Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s moves against anti-graft bodies had chilling effect, warns official
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s moves against anti-graft bodies had chilling effect, warns official
[FREE TO READ] Whistleblowers stop co-operating after president’s attempt to undermine independence of anti-corruption agencies, Oleksandr Klymenko says
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Jul 28
Big numbers, non-binding commitments and still lots of details to iron out: on.ft.com/46ZPWQI
What have the US and EU agreed on trade?
[FREE TO READ] Most exports from bloc to face 15% tariffs while European market will open to more American imports
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Jul 7
on.ft.com/44OEu8W Bosnia, 30 years on: the looming crisis in the Balkans
Bosnia, 30 years on: the looming crisis in the Balkans
[FREE TO READ] Trouble is brewing again in the ethnically divided state, exactly three decades after the Srebrenica massacre
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Valentina Pop @valpop.bsky.social · Jul 7
on.ft.com/3GxOSbU Liechtenstein hit by Russia-linked ‘zombie trust’ crisis
Liechtenstein hit by Russia-linked ‘zombie trust’ crisis
[FREE TO READ] Hundreds of entities in legal paralysis in the principality after US sanctions trigger wave of director resignations
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