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Martin Sandbu

European Economics Commentator

Martin Sandbu is the Financial Times's European economics commentator. He also writes Free Lunch, the FT's weekly newsletter on the global economic policy debate. He has been writing for the FT since 2009, when he joined the paper as economics leader writer.

Before joining the FT, he worked in academia and policy consulting. He is the author of three books, on business ethics, the euro, and on the economics of belonging.

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  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    Europe must work out what role China will play in its decarbonisation agenda

    Confusion over aims inevitably leads to confusion over means

    An all-electric Mini Countryman on the assembly line in the BMW Group factory in Leipzig, Germany
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Free LunchWar in Ukraine
    Cutting through the fog of the Russian assets debate Premium content

    Ukraine needs the money Russia owes it, all of it and fast

    A heavily damaged school building
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Germany, Russia and my grandmother

    The deep reckoning with the German past does not inevitably lead to the right conclusions on Ukraine

    A German military police soldier guards a column of Soviet Red Army prisoners of war captured during Operation Barbarossa
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Free LunchEuropean Parliament elections
    The economic effects of Europe’s election Premium content

    How a rising right might change the EU’s policy course

    The woman and boy together push the voting paper into the ballot box
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour’s lack of boldness could come back to haunt it

    The party’s fear of looking irresponsible is closing off the prospect of growth-boosting tax reform

    A woman in a green suit smiles for the camera
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Unhedged podcast22 min listen
    The billionaires’ tax

    The G20 is discussing a global tax on the super-rich. Will it ever happen?

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Free LunchForeign direct investment
    Has the US really diverted green investment from Europe? Premium content

    The data shows otherwise

    Wind turbines at a wind farm in Germany
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Free LunchRussia
    The empty threat of dumping western assets Premium content

    The west has nothing to fear but fear itself over decision to make Russia pay

    The Spasskaya Tower and St Basil’s Cathedral with a barbed wire in the foreground
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    International tax
    We are a step closer to taxing the super-rich

    What once seemed like an impossibility is now being considered by G20 finance ministers

    Gabriel Zucman speaking at the G20 in February 2024
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Free LunchUS-China trade dispute
    Tariffs against America Premium content

    The EU should not be tempted to respond in kind

    Electric cars in a Chinese port for shipping
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    EU-China relations
    A missed opportunity for a China-EU grand bargain

    Differences over Russia and economic frictions cast a shadow across Xi Jinping’s tour of European capitals

    Two men hold umbrellas as they walk on the tarmac of an airport
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Free LunchGlobal inflation
    Are US and euro inflation pressures parting ways? Premium content

    US prices are from Mars and the Eurozone’s are from Venus — or maybe not

    Two elderly shoppers at a fruit and vegetable stall in Barcelona getting money from their purses
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Authoritarians fear transparency — liberal democracies should embrace it

    There is a first-mover advantage to openness on Russian assets

    Soldiers stand in a trench
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Free LunchRussian business & finance
    Ethical business in an evil world Premium content

    How western corporates should (belatedly) think about their Russia exposure

    The Grand Kremlin Palace and office buildings in the Moscow International Business Center
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Free LunchWar in Ukraine
    The screws are turning on Russia’s state assets Premium content

    EU resistance to confiscation is unsustainable

    Supporters of Ukraine holding a sign saying ‘Thank you USA’ and waving Ukrainian and American flags
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    EU economy
    Europe still fails to make enough of its size — here’s how to fix that

    EU leaders must match the boldness of Thatcher and Delors

    Enrico Letta presents his report on the future of the EU’s single market last week
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Free LunchGerman economy
    Germany’s doomed China strategy Premium content

    The corporatist spell must soon break

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Free LunchInternational Monetary Fund
    Good uses for public money Premium content

    Arguments for subsidising green innovation

    A coal-fired power plant in Germany
  • Sunday, 7 April, 2024
    European Union
    The EU’s recovery fund is already shaping its future

    Economic convergence is back and will affect the politics of the bloc’s next budget

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Free LunchGlobal Economy
    Three economic zombies worth fighting Premium content

    Bad policy ideas that are surprisingly widely held

    A worker inspects solar panels at a solar plant in China
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    ObituaryDaniel Kahneman
    Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, 1934-2024

    An accidental invader of economics, his insights changed the discipline forever

    Picture of Daniel Kahneman in glasses, coloured shirt and sweater standing on the balcony of a building at Princeton University
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Free LunchEuropean Central Bank
    Where does the ECB go next? Premium content

    As the monetary cycle looks set to turn, the policy framework for the next phase remains unclear

    Christine Lagarde speaking at the ‘ECB and Its Watchers’ conference
  • Sunday, 24 March, 2024
    European manufacturing
    Europe is making trade conditional on production methods

    Businesses are upset by the extra regulation resulting from the restrictions

    An employee fits doors on an electric VW vehicle on an assembly line
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Free LunchBank of Japan
    Japan will remain the new normal Premium content

    Closing a monetary cabinet of curiosities

    The Bank of Japan headquarters
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Free LunchRussian assets
    Taking but not confiscating: getting creative with Russian state assets Premium content

    How Moscow can be made to compensate Ukraine without confiscation

    People at Moscow’s Red Square
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