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...Ergo, R+V, Allianz and Volkswohl-Bund declined to comment. Signa did not respond to a request for comment....
...Sam Jones is the FT’s Austria and Switzerland correspondent and acting Berlin correspondent Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend...
...The period between the Fischer-Spassky match of 1972 and the fall of the Berlin Wall was uniquely productive for English chess....
...Selling for three times its high estimate was “Love Ritual” (2019) by the British painter Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, which made £120,000 (£151,200 with fees)....
...v United States, world teams, Astana 2019....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...In an interview with the FT, Alexis Tsipras said he was open to making it easier for Berlin to send asylum seekers back to other European countries....
...“Germany is doing well and the next government must ensure that it continues to do so,” she said at a press conference in Berlin....
Success of rightwing populists in election prompts foreign investment concerns
...On Wednesday, Wolfgang Schäuble, finance minister, expressed hope that Berlin could help cement a Brexit deal that would protect both economies....
...Goodbye, Vitor The outgoing no. 2 at the ECB has given a wide-ranging farewell interview to the FT’s Claire Jones....
...With its recovery looking durable and a new appetite for co-operation in Paris and Berlin, “Europe no longer feels like a continent flat on its back”....
...His SPD has come under mounting pressure to break the political deadlock in Berlin....
...in his so-called “Berlin Trilogy” of albums....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect inflation to rise to a little below 3% in mid-2017....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford Significantly, but don’t ask me how....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford I just don’t know....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect growth in the UK to slow from 2.0% in 2016 to 0.8% in 2017....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford More pessimistic than 12 months ago (I note the question is premised on Brexit.)...
...According to JDF Jones, the first Weekend FT editor, these pages were aimed at the FT reader “with his pullover on”....
...The GDR is facing bankruptcy while West Berlin prospers, and the case means digging up secrets that will affect everyone’s future....
...In Golders Hill Park and on the Heath you could catch the cultured end of the Jewish immigration of the 1930s – from Berlin and Vienna – reading poetry on the benches....
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