EU Correspondent

We are looking for an experienced and industrious correspondent in our Brussels bureau to cover the EU’s economic and financial policies, their impact on the continent’s economy, and regulation of financial services and markets.

This exciting role, at the heart of the FT’s European coverage, comes at a pivotal moment for the EU economy as Brussels juggles a push towards industrial sovereignty and decarbonisation with protecting the integrity of the single market. Successive crises, from the coronavirus pandemic to the war in Ukraine, have prompted vast economic stimulus plans while concerns over the EU’s competitiveness, most recently in response to US green subsidies, have led to a loosening of EU rules on state aid.

The correspondent will chart the EU’s ongoing struggle to tame stubbornly high inflation and boost tepid economic growth, at a crunch moment for the bloc’s governments beset by soaring debt levels that are straining Brussels’ fiscal rules. The role is an important part of the FT’s global economics team, and works in tandem with colleagues in London and Frankfurt.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide agenda-setting coverage of policy-making by EU and eurozone finance ministers, the European Commission and other institutions, while ensuring to explain their significance to FT readers around the world. The correspondent will be expected to break news on these topics but also deliver real world reporting on how these decisions affect businesses and citizens.

The role includes coverage of the EU’s own budgetary strains after years of unforeseen spending and in view of costly new ambitions, including enlargement to Ukraine and other countries.