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This and more in today’s Financial Times Europe Express w Laura Dubois 🇫🇷 Also featuring Leila Abboud explaining the mess in French politics 👶🏻 And a scary FT Data chart on Europe’s crashing birth rate Read and sign up👇 ft.com/content/157b67…

"This is not personal." The EU's new digital and security boss on Elon Musk in her first interview on the job by @JavierespFT Laura Dubois ft.com/content/417e97…

EU tech chief strikes conciliatory tone with Elon Musk ft.com/content/417e97… via @JavierespFT Laura Dubois

Today’s Financial Times Europe Express w Laura Dubois 🇸🇾EU countries freeze Syrian asylum applications - but keep HTS rebels as a terror organisation 🇬🇧How UK chancellor Reeves went down with EU finmins - Paola Tamma 📈Plus: German election polls Read & sign up👇 ft.com/content/fd5288…

carmakers likely to be spared carbon emissions fines as Robert Habeck EPP Group Sigrid de Vries press for relief . Laura Dubois . Plus Romanian politics by Marton Dunai . Today’s Europe Express with Henry Foy on.ft.com/3Bnnlr8 via @financialtimes

Europe agrees insurance crackdown on Russia’s ‘dark fleet’ ft.com/content/8a485a… via @ft w/ Chris Cook Henry Foy and Laura Dubois

Russian smugglers are charging huge fees to import luxury cars from Europe, as EU sanctions in response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hit the country’s wealthy. ⁦Laura Dubois⁩ ⁦Anastasia Stognei⁩ and ⁦Chris Cook⁩ report: on.ft.com/3VV2Qcv

Europol chief says Big Tech has ‘responsibility’ to unlock encrypted messages ft.com/content/1e6a60… via Suzi Ring Laura Dubois

Are minerals certified as from Rwanda in fact stolen by its armed proxies in DRC? A Belgian judge will investigate. david pilling Laura Dubois alicemhancock

Divided EU relieved to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs on.ft.com/4hiRKGm via Financial Times with Laura Dubois

Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven have sold their Alfa-Bank stakes amid their bid to overturn EU sanctions against them, according to documents seen by the FT. Latest, with ⁦Laura Dubois⁩: on.ft.com/3CMSyog

European prosecutors are examining how the Moscow office of an IT contractor helped to build the EU’s new electronic border system, which will establish the bloc’s biggest personal information database. Great ⁦Laura Dubois⁩ scoop: on.ft.com/4hCgmKu

According to documents seen by Financial Times's Laura Dubois, French IT group Atos used staff in Russia to buy software in 2021 for EU's highly sensitive new electronic border system, which aims to gather and store biometric data on all non-EU visitors to the EU. ft.com/content/154125…

French IT giant Atos used its Russian branch to buy software for the EU’s new electronic border system, documents show, in a potential major security breach that is being probed by European prosecutors. Financial Times on.ft.com/4hCgmKu

Europe’s defence industry should consolidate in a handful of players able to meet the continent’s military needs after the Trump administration threatened to withdraw US support, Belgian defence minister Theo Francken said. ft.com/content/1b601d… W Laura Dubois Henry Foy

Belgium's new defence minister Theo Francken has called for greater consolidation in the EU defence sector, with the formation up to four “really big” arms companies to “improve quality” and “lower the costs”. Financial Times with Henry Foy Barbara Moens ft.com/content/1b601d…

Maltese ‘golden’ passports were sold to Russians with Ukraine war links via ⁦Laura Dubois⁩ on.ft.com/4jwj2uz

Maltese ‘golden’ passports were sold to Russians with Ukraine war links – great piece by Laura Dubois ft.com/content/b6accf…

Israel’s Gaza aid plan could lead to ‘war crime’, UN agency chief says on.ft.com/3Zp5l8s

Deal to let Brits skip EU passport queues would have happened without post-Brexit accord ft.com/content/842734… via Laura Dubois Jim Pickard 🐋