Laura Pitel
Berlin Correspondent at Financial Times
Berlin Correspondent at the @FT, covering everything from politics to foreign policy to business. Previously in London, Istanbul and Ankara.
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4 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Laura Pitel
Germany will bring back conscription to boost its armed forces if a plan to use volunteers fails to deliver enough recruits, the country’s defence minister has said. Boris Pistorius said he would begin with a voluntary model to attract young people, supporting the Bundeswehr’s goal of more than doubling its reserve forces in response to Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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4 days ago |
ft.com | Laura Pitel
Germany will bring back conscription to boost its armed forces if a plan to use volunteers fails to deliver enough recruits, the...
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5 days ago |
ft.com | Henry Foy |Ben Hall |Leila Abboud |Anne-Sylvaine Chassany |Laura Pitel
In the lead-up to this week’s Nato summit, European capitals have been struggling to get a straight answer from Washington: is the US...
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1 week ago |
ft.com | Laura Pitel |Alice Hancock |Gill Plimmer
Europe’s biggest steel producer has abandoned plans to convert two German steel plants to green production and warned that it could also...
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2 weeks ago |
ft.com | Laura Pitel
Germany will hold its first celebration of veterans since the second world war on Sunday, as the nation recalibrates its complex...
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On paper, Friedrich Merz is fully committed to the “debt brake” that places strict caps on German government borrowing. But the man widely seen as the next chancellor could quickly find it too suffocating. More, featuring @jsuedekum @Lars_Feld @maxkrahe: https://t.co/feUMIYzFEC
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