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    Sam Jones

    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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    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Signa Holding
      European property group Signa held rescue talks with Elliott

      No deal was reached with hedge fund after efforts to secure more than €400mn of financing

      People walk past a building with an office of Signa
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Austria
      Head of Austrian parliament accused of conspiring to obstruct justice

      Covert recording of now-deceased civil servant accuses Wolfgang Sobotka of interfering in sensitive investigations

      President of the Austrian council Wolfgang Sobotka
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      German politics
      German parliament cancels 2024 budget vote amid political crisis

      Bundestag committee postpones poll indefinitely following constitutional court ruling against coalition’s spending plans

      German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Switzerland agrees sale of tanks to backfill Nato stocks

      Germany will receive 25 decommissioned Leopard 2 tanks on condition it will not send them to Ukraine

      Swiss soldiers on a Leopard 2 tank
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Siemens Energy
      Siemens Energy plans €400mn in cuts at struggling wind turbine business

      Move comes after group was forced to accept €15bn state-backed rescue package

      Wind turbine blades at a Siemens plant in Le Havre, France
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Julius Baer Gruppe AG
      Julius Baer warns on profits weeks after Signa crisis

      Swiss lender has taken $79mn in ‘valuation adjustments’ against its loan book since the end of October

      A person walks in front of a Julius Baer branch
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Middle East conflict restarts German debate on selling jets to Saudi Arabia

      Israel-Hamas war has prompted several ministers in Berlin to reconsider relations with Gulf kingdom

      German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sits in the cockpit of a German Eurofighter plane
    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      ObituaryKarel Schwarzenberg
      Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech diplomat, 1937-2023

      The prince dedicated his career to championing humanitarian and European values

      Karel Schwarzenberg in Prague in 2013. As foreign minister, he sought to build bridges with western European capitals and Washington
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Differences over Israel-Hamas war cloud Erdoğan visit to Berlin Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: How Brussels is working to defuse cheesemakers’ concerns over packaging rules

    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Germany raids ‘anti-Israel’ Muslim organisations

      Police and intelligence agencies swoop on more than 54 properties on Thursday

      German police stand outside the Islamic Center Hamburg in Germany on Thursday
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      News in-depthGerman politics
      Germany’s top court puts ‘debt brake’ on Scholz coalition

      Karlsruhe verdict lands future spending plans and government’s solidarity in peril

      Olaf Scholz
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Germany
      Germany’s ‘ultimate Putin expert’ took secret payments from Russia

      Hubert Seipel has admitted to receiving €600,000 from a sanctioned oligarch

      German journalist Hubert Seipel, left, pictured with Vladimir Putin
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Siemens Energy
      Siemens Energy to restructure wind turbine business after steep losses

      German clean energy group does not see unit returning to profitability until 2026

      A Siemens Gamesa wind turbine blade factory in Hull, northeast England
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Selfridges & Co Ltd
      Thai investor set to take control of Selfridges Group

      Central Group will be the retailer’s majority owner after a financial crisis at Signa

      People look at a Selfridges window display
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Siemens Energy
      Siemens Energy’s €15bn rescue package underwritten by German government

      Deal is vital to sustaining a €110bn portfolio of clean energy projects planned by the company

      An entrance to a Siemens plant in Berlin
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      German economy
      Court threatens to blow €60bn hole in German budget over off-balance sheet funds

      Ruling related to country’s enshrined debt brake risks spat within coalition and cash for energy transition

    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Germany
      German charged with smuggling kit used to make sniper rifles to Russia

      Executive accused of using shell network to ship equipment to Russian manufacturer, in contravention of EU embargo

      A Russian soldier pointing a gun out of the window
    • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
      News in-depthProperty sector
      ‘The death knell’: how tycoon behind Chrysler Building and Selfridges was forced out

      Austrian property billionaire René Benko this week lost control of his luxury development company Signa

      René Benko’s troubles are being picked over with glee by some in his native Austria
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      German politics
      German chancellor Olaf Scholz admits uncertainty over defence spending

      Berlin pledges to plug budgetary holes that will speed up procurement and help meet Nato targets

      Olaf Scholz with the Inspector General of the German Armed Forces Carsten Breuer and defence minister Boris Pistorius
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      German economy
      Germany agrees tax subsidies for industry worth up to €28bn by 2028

      Deal to help shield country’s manufacturers from high energy costs likely to draw criticism from Brussels

      A worker stands near a blast furnace at a German metals plant
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Signa Holding
      Signa appoints chair to lead restructuring after founder’s exit

      Arndt Geiwitz replaces René Benko at helm of property group with stakes in Selfridges and Chrysler building

      Arndt Geiwitz
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      German arms exports to Israel surge as Berlin backs campaign against Hamas

      Defence sales worth €300mn this year is 10-fold rise on 2022, with most licences approved after October 7 attack

      Israeli rocket shells on Gaza: Germany said it continues to ‘stand up for the protection of Israel’ from Hamas attacks
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Brussels is seething at Italy, Germany and Austria’s migrant plans Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: three high-profile corruption cases in France

      Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni  and Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama shake hands at Chigi Palace in Rome
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      EU immigration
      Scholz hails Germany’s ‘historic’ clampdown on illegal immigration

      Berlin’s asylum package, which could see processing centres set up outside EU, scales back benefits for refugees

      Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Stephan Weil, prime minister of Lower Saxony and Hesse prime minister Boris Rhein
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      German politics
      Olaf Scholz seeks ‘pact for Germany’ to stave off far right

      Bitter immigration debate has pitted Scholz’s coalition and opposition parties against each other

      German police officers frisk a group of migrants near Forst on the Polish border.
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