#Migration: #EU nears migration deals with #Jordan and #Morocco, by Laura Dubois and Henry Foy | Financial Times ft.com/content/46a250…

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

This piece by ⁦Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي⁩ and ⁦Sarah Dadouch | سارة دعدوش⁩ 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

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 Henry Foy. on.ft.com/4fpvVDN

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

Lord Peter Mandelson to be UK’s next ambassador to US ⁦George Parker⁩ ⁦Financial Times⁩ on.ft.com/3ZZVu9U

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

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

.Financial Times’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 Ursula von der Leyen deliver? ft.com/content/81e37a…

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