Henry Foy

🚨Some personal news... Very excited to start today as the @FinancialTimes Brussels bureau chief, leading a stupendous team of reporters covering the EU's good, bad and ugly: from war to economic malaise, climate change, busted budgets & an existential enlargement question!

My 2025 resolution - post on Bluesky 🦋 See you there: bsky.app/profile/henryj…

.@FT’s 2024 in a word: Competitiveness Mario Draghi’s clarion call for the EU to get its shit together, reboot its economy and close the yawning GDP gap on the US and China is now the buzzword on every EU leader’s lips. But can @vonderleyen deliver? ft.com/content/81e37a…

“The Europeans remain largely unprepared for what has been on the cards since early this year,” says @MollingDGAP. “We are now entering the most dangerous weeks for Europe.” Read the whole analysis here: ft.com/content/e241db…

With Zelenskyy present, the two leaders squabbled over the Russian assets, rehashing a years-long argument inside the EU. “You don’t understand” Scholz barked at Duda. “You don’t even use the euro!” Hours later, Zelenskyy told reporters he couldn’t rely on Europe without the US

At Wednesday nights meeting of top Nato leaders, Germany’s Scholz lost his temper, lashing out at Poland’s Duda over Russia’s frozen assets It was a telling sign of a divided & uncoordinated Europe as it braces for Trump ft.com/content/e241db… @ft weekend read w @hallbenjamin

💥 Trump wants 5% Nato defence spending target, Europe told - but says he WILL keep supplying weapons to Ukraine. ft.com/content/35f490… via @ft

She’ll own the EU competitiveness story; with pieces like this brilliant swansong “People will write about in the history books: Did [von der Leyen] manage to hold firm against Russia? And did she stop Europe’s economic decline? All the rest are details” politico.eu/article/ursula…

So thrilled that Brussels’ best is joining our already brilliant team - @BMoens will be a star for the @FT as we expand and deepen our coverage of one of the EU’s most important stories.

Zelenskyy’s brutal assessment of the value of European security guarantees to Ukraine without the US joining in splashes tomorrow’s @FT Painful reading in Brussels

Lord Peter Mandelson to be UK’s next ambassador to US ⁦@GeorgeWParker⁩ ⁦@FinancialTimes⁩ on.ft.com/3ZZVu9U

Security guarantees without US not ‘sufficient’ for Ukraine, says Volodymyr Zelenskyy after 24 hours of talks with EU and Nato leaders on future support pledges ft.com/content/6b46ba… via @ft

European security guarantees ‘not sufficient’ for Ukraine, says Zelenskyy “It is very important for us to have both on board, the United States and the Europeans . . . a common decision.” #post-a8226a84-4cf6-4dcb-947e-150d5bda760c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ft.com/content/4472b1… via @ft

Russian election meddling "nearly impossible" to prove, says Romanian president, who warns: “All countries are exposed to this risk” ft.com/content/743ad4… @valentinapop in Bucharest for @ft

Troops on the ground? Peacekeepers? A mutual defence guarantee that doesn’t include US? A select group of European leaders huddled in Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte’s house in Brussels last night to talk potential ideas with Zelensky, writes @HenryJFoy. on.ft.com/4fpvVDN

Kallas spoke ahead of a summit of EU leaders today attended by Zelenskyy, where they will discuss how to possibly adapt Brussels’ support to Ukraine in light of Trump’s election victory and his vow to suspend US aid to Kyiv & force immediate peace talks ft.com/content/6231f0…

“There’s no point pushing Zelensky to talk when Putin doesn’t want to talk,” Kallas said. “Russia does not want peace.” “The big question is: what is the security guarantee?… If it is not troops, if it is not long range weapons, what is it actually that protects you?”

Stop pushing Zelenskyy into peace talks and instead make sure your security guarantees to Kyiv aren’t “empty”, the EU’s top diplomat @kajakallas warns EU capitals in an interview with the @FT ft.com/content/6231f0…

This piece by ⁦@rayajalabi⁩ and ⁦@SarahDadouch⁩ is the kind of stunning reporting that we all go into journalism aspiring to do. Unbelievable stuff. Read it and don’t look away: on.ft.com/3OWC67A

Denmark forced to revamp defence plan agreed just 8 months ago, PM Frederiksen tells @hallbenjamin, in a sign of how fast EU govts are rethinking military budgets in response to Trump and Russia ft.com/content/9744ac… @ft

#Migration: #EU nears migration deals with #Jordan and #Morocco, by @lauramdubois and @HenryJFoy | Financial Times ft.com/content/46a250…