'While civil society in Germany has been praised for its willingness to acknowledge the horrors committed by the Nazi regime, the wartime behaviour of some of the country’s richest industrial families remains a sensitive topic.'
ft.com/content/851667…

NEW: NatWest closed bank accounts for Jamaican people living outside the UK earlier this year, I've been told. 100s have been affected it is claimed, including a 92 year old man who has not had his state pension since January 2023.

wrote about Farage and strippers newstatesman.com/comment/2023/0…

Central bankers warn companies on fatter profit margins - after focusing on the dangers of strong wage growth driving inflation, rate-setters have switched to businesses raising prices ft.com/content/a35d1d… with Patricia Nilsson Colby Smith Delphine Strauss

A big shout out to Alex Barker & Patricia Nilsson (and Financial Times audio boss Cheryl Brumley) for yet another big honor for #HotMoney . For those who haven’t listened yet, all episodes on iTunes, Spotify or here: ft.com/content/762e46…

BASF to wind down several plants in Germany as world’s largest chemical group struggles with high energy costs. BASF also plans increased production in China. 

by @PatriciaNilsson
ft.com/content/b0b2b2…

Ukraine has been firing an estimated 5,000-6,000 artillery rounds a day - similar to the annual orders of a smaller European country before the war. Important story on the production pressures facing Europe by Sylvia Pfeifer and Patricia Nilsson

ft.com/content/ea5b48…

“We helped create a very powerful and dangerous Russia without being cognisant of the risk.”

⁦Patricia Nilsson⁩ & ⁦Anastasia Stognei⁩ on how Wintershall tried to stay in Russia – until Gazprom took over their JV and emptied their shared accounts on.ft.com/3XzPDEF

'To believe that we can go back to a world where you just do everything by yourself, for yourself, in the geographical location that you’re in...that is not how sophisticated industry works,' Mercedes' CEO Ola Kallenius tells Patricia Nilsson. ft.com/content/027331…

NEW:

Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events

It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks

enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/c540270…

Thread:

New: Volkswagen is going it alone on EU CO2 rules this year.

SAIC, NIO and Geely excluded from 2022 pool.

'We are confident of reaching EU emission targets on our own,' says VW.

Spotted by @auto_schmidt, story from Patricia Nilsson & me: ft.com/content/e7a2d8…

Big surprise: Rivian pauses its deal to make EV vans with Mercedes in Europe.

Startup wants to preserve its cash pile as conditions worsen.

#makingcarsishard

First details with Patricia Nilsson here: ft.com/content/ea197d…

Thought-provoking essay by Henry Mance on how complex and messy it is to change status quo ft.com/content/4a0ab6… (with comments underneath the piece perhaps indicating how urgently this is needed)

Germany made a “strategic bet” on globalisation and interdependence — and is now suffering the consequences, Guy Chazan and Patricia Nilsson report.

“It outsourced its security to the US, its export-led growth to China, and its energy needs to Russia.”

ft.com/content/50a462…

1/20 Dear friends, I need to draw your attention to something super bad and super important (and it doesn’t originate from Russia for once). Last week the EU has taken a shockingly stupid and damaging decision to close down national corporate registers of beneficial owners 🧵🧵🧵

Batteries will replace barley in a onetime agricultural town in Hungary, which could be Europe’s nerve centre of the elevtric boom. — w/ ⁦Yuan Yang⁩ ⁦Patricia Nilsson⁩ via Financial Times
enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/5832ecf…

Oh gosh another one! Hot Money wins podcast of the year at the #FPAawards22 Alex Barker Patricia Nilsson and brill colleagues Financial Times and partners Pushkin Industries 🎙️

One of the best things I’ve read this year by one of the FT’s most interesting writers

Incredibly proud of Hot Money Alex Barker Patricia Nilsson Pete Sale + the whole team at Pushkin Industries 🎙️ + Financial Times who made this quite unbelievable story about the business of porn into a mega + now 🥇award-winning hit #MFA2022 twitter.com/FTPressOffice/…