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...Delors’ contribution to the European cause rivals those of Jean Monnet, Walter Hallstein and Robert Schuman, the founding fathers of the European Economic Community, launched in 1958....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the results of last week’s poll. Asked if Belgium would break up, some 82 per cent of you said no, 11 per cent said yes and 9 per cent were undecided....
...1934: Henry Kissinger, 11, with his arm around his brother Walter, 10. The two grew up in prewar Germany 1969: In Washington....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Russia and the world Let’s look first at the impact of Russian propaganda around the world....
...Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna M Grzymała-Busse, Princeton University Press £25/$29.95, 256 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s European comment editor Join...
...My grooming guru is my barber, Alain Maître, at 8 Rue Saint-Claude in Paris. I don’t go to anyone else. I need to go to see him very soon to tend to my beard....
...“One of my favourite bits of writing is Walter Benjamin on Naples in One Way Street. He describes the city as [being] as porous as the stone in the architecture....
...He was passionate about Scottish culture and history, from Sir Walter Scott to the Glasgow aesthetic movement, populating his private collection at home in Edinburgh and at Pitcullo Castle, a restored rural...
...I’m Tony Barber, the FT’s European Comment Editor, and every Saturday, I’m unpacking one of the big themes from the week. Let’s start with a question....
...Perhaps it is time to review former FT editor Lionel Barber’s take on a century of “Auntie Beeb”. What events are concerning you in the coming seven days?...
...Time’s Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism by Rosemary Hill, Allen Lane £25, 416 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...That early commission produced a design for their Loop table that sat on a shelf until they convinced Chris McCourt, the owner of Isokon Plus (the furniture company that appointed Walter Gropius as controller...
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...James Phillips, a George Washington University doctor who also practises at Walter Reed, criticised Mr Trump over the move....
...The SPD leadership contest was won by Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken after what amounted to a grassroots leftist protest against the party establishment and its co-operation with the CDU....
...Lionel Barber’s choices My two picks are both from 2012: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, writes Lionel Barber....
...Sign up here with one click The first designers he hired were Ed Barber and Jay Osgerby....
...Katrin Greiling, for example, takes Walter Gropius’s 1920 F51N armchair and introduces modern tones of red or blue with warmer results. tecta.de Salone Satellite Hamanishi Design: Burning metal Hamanishi...
...Roula Khalaf, deputy editor of the FT I loved Walter Kempowski’s All for Nothing (Granta, RRP£8.99), a masterpiece of a novel recently translated from German....
...(WaPo) Too big to fail FT editor Lionel Barber on the future of financial journalism. (FT) Job moves White & Case has hired Nirangjan Nagarajah as a new partner in Melbourne in its M&A practice....
...Lionel Barber, FT editor and chair of judges, said: “After an exceptionally robust debate on a wide ranging longlist, we have chosen six titles [that] offer a compelling insight into today’s business trends...
...Lionel Barber is editor of the Financial Times Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Lionel Barber, FT editor and chair of judges, said: “Janesville is about the new industrial age and how you deal with it....
...The last word, however, goes to Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler , a sobering history of inequality....
...Heath and his chancellor Anthony Barber were deaf to the Bank’s warnings about excessive credit expansion....
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