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Hans van Leeuwen

@hansvan333

UK/Europe correspondent for the Australian Financial Review

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I went to Milan. I had a very nice Vietnamese baguette, a very ordinary pizza, and a lot of very interesting conversations about the arrival of the uber-wealthy into what was already Italy's most international city. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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'A completely new dawn'. Now that China's economic arsenal is replete with weapons, is Beijing poised to turn its leverage into outright coercion? telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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Here’s why global markets are worried about a few bad corporate apples in America. It could upset the whole cart. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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No chainsaw, no leather jacket... but Milei shows plenty of resolve to use a surprising mandate to press on with his singular economic experiment. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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If numbers like this persist, Labour might become death-bed converts to the cause of proportional or preferential voting systems.

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Donald Trump Highway or Xi Jinping Boulevard? As Trump tries to muscle SE Asia with poisonpilled trade deals, Xi tells them not to be bullied. Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia don't want to have to choose... but what if they're forced to? telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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The fraught politics of immigration seem to be coming to Spain. If you're British, Dutch, French, German or Italian it's a familiar tale; but it has come as a surprise to Spaniards, the majority of whom have long had a very liberal attitude to incomers. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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Fascinating new report from AidData, three years in the making. It opens a whole new window on Chinese state-backed lending and investing overseas -- which is far bigger than previously thought, and far more concentrated in the US, Britain and Australia. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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My fab colleague Eir Nolsoe and I have told the story of Poland’s and Britain’s contrasting economic fortunes through a tale of two towns. Gliwice has overtaken Darlington in PPP terms … how did it happen? telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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French Left-wingers, stymied in their push for a wealth tax, have landed on a new idea: forcing the rich to lend the government money instead. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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It's astonishing how quickly the Trump administration is muscling into the ex-China rare-earths sector, all over the world. How will Britain keep its foot in the door? telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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Although Friedrich Merz is a Boomer, his reformist zeal meant milliennial conservatives in his CDU party rallied to his flag. But now intergenerational tension has reared its ugly head. Merz has his work cut out to reassert his authority and momentum. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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More than 10 years have passed, but I have never got over Private Eye pointing out the resemblance between this guy and David Cameron.

More than 10 years have passed, but I have never got over Private Eye pointing out the resemblance between this guy and David Cameron.
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If a government stops releasing economic data, it's hard not to become suspicious that things might be even worse than they're letting on. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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Larry the Cat has a new rival, and he's looking like a bit of a winner Belgian prime minister’s cat steals the limelight from master telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…