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Guy Chazan

US correspondent

Guy Chazan covers US politics, society and culture for the Financial Times out of New York.

He joined the FT in 2012 and worked as energy editor, page one editor and chief Germany correspondent, based in Berlin, from 2017-2024.

Prior to 2012 he worked for 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, serving as its correspondent in Moscow, Jerusalem and London.

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  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    What happened to the Trump ‘resistance’?

    Disorganised and dispirited, those opposed to the US president’s policies have grown unexpectedly quiet

    Black and white photo of protesters walking during the Women’s March on Washington, with the US Capitol in the background, on January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    The Big Read
    Los Angeles after the fires: ‘You can only live in a disaster zone for so long’

    The city is pushing to rebuild areas devasted by wildfires. But the costs and the mounting risks of future disasters are hard to overcome

    An aerial view of repair vehicles at sunset passing near beachfront homes that burnt down in the Palisades fire
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    European companies
    Germany’s biggest companies top 25% female leadership for first time

    Mandatory quota law passed in 2020 has improved equality but country remains behind western peers

    Daimler Truck chief Karin Rådström
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    EU trade
    Merz pushes for EU free trade deal with Trump’s US

    German conservative leader predicted to be next chancellor rejects retaliatory tariffs

    German opposition leader Friedrich Merz
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    German politics
    Heat pump sales surge in Germany on fears conservatives will scrap subsidies

    Centre-right bloc forecast to win February elections may end grants to replace gas boilers

    The inside parts and cables of a heat pump system being assembled in a Bosch factory in October 2023
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    German politics
    Merz attacks Musk article praising Germany’s far-right AfD

    CDU leader and other politicians criticise media group Axel Springer over publication of opinion piece

    Elon Musk
  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
    News in-depthBerlin
    Berlin cries Kulturkrise as cuts hit arts scene

    One of Europe’s most vibrant cultural capitals is reeling over plans to slash subsidies

    Roman Burdenko as Macbeth and ensemble during the rehearsal for Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Germany
    Saudi Arabia warned Germany about man held over Magdeburg attack

    Five people killed and more than 200 injured after car ploughed into busy Christmas market

  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Goodbye to Berlin, Europe’s self-effacing capital

    The FT’s departing correspondent on the city’s transformation over the past decade

    Groups of casually dressed young people perusing artwork painted on the Berlin Wall on a summer evening, with sunset in the background
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    German election
    Gloves come off in fiery start to German election campaign

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz goes on offensive against conservative rival Friedrich Merz ahead of snap February poll

    Friedrich Merz gestures as he addresses the Bundestag
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    German politics
    Germany’s CDU to offer voters tax cuts and immigration controls

    Party’s manifesto for the forthcoming election, seen by the Financial Times, promises tougher stance

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Nato
    Nato’s European members discuss 3% target for defence spending

    Increased military expenditure could be agreed at next year’s summit, intensifying pressure on national budgets

    Donald Trump and Mark Rutte
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    German politics
    German Greens leader cosies up to conservatives

    Franziska Brantner open to post-election coalition despite CDU blaming ecological party for country’s stagnation

    Franziska Brantner
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    News in-depthGerman politics
    Germany’s ‘peace chancellor’ spars with rivals over Ukraine

    Olaf Scholz tries to depict conservative and Green candidates as warmongers ahead of February snap vote

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, greets Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz, left, in the plenary chamber of the Bundestag on December 4 2024
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    German politics
    German liberals in turmoil over ‘D-Day’ plot to end Scholz’s coalition

    FDP politicians resign after internal plans made public

    The two men talk behind a wall. The main parliament chamber can be seen in the background
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    EU budget rules
    Germany stumbles on fiscal rules it championed for EU

    Brussels calls out some fiscal hawks for veering from bloc’s spending limits for member states

    Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Freedom by Angela Merkel — a paean to a bygone halcyon age

    The former German chancellor’s remarkable story is undermined by a failure to admit mistakes — though she does not pull her punches on Putin and Trump

    Angela Merkel talks to Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Canada, 2018, surrounded by other G7 leaders and advisers
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    German politics
    Relax Germany’s debt brake, says Angela Merkel

    Former chancellor’s memoirs back reform of borrowing cap that she introduced into constitution

    Angela Merkel
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Sovereign debt
    German bond investors bet on an end to Berlin’s ‘debt brake’

    A key indicator has fallen below zero for the first time as market braces for higher German borrowing

    The sun rises behind the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Angela Merkel
    Nato right to heed Russian anger over Ukraine accession plan, Merkel says in memoirs

    Ignoring Vladimir Putin’s opposition to 2008 proposal would have risked ‘playing with fire’, writes Germany’s ex-chancellor

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, with Russian President Vladimir Putin near Moscow in March 2008
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    News in-depthGerman politics
    Scholz faces his ‘Biden moment’

    German chancellor under pressure from own party to mirror US president and drop out of election race

    Defence minister Boris Pistorius pictured with Chancellor Olaf Scholz
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Scholz under growing pressure to send long-range missiles to Ukraine

    US decision to allow Kyiv to use Atacms on Russian targets heaps pressure on German chancellor to send Tauruses

    Taurus missile and Olaf Scholz; Atacms and Joe Biden
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    German politics
    SPD politician joins calls for Pistorius to replace Scholz as election candidate

    Germany is facing snap February poll after chancellor unexpectedly pulled plug on his coalition

    Boris Pistorius, left, and Olaf Scholz
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    German leader Scholz speaks to Putin for first time in 2 years

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy says phone call opens ‘Pandora’s box’ by giving Russian leader the resumption in contacts he wants

  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Person in the News
    Friedrich Merz, the man who would be Germany’s next chancellor

    The CDU leader gave up a lucrative business career and is now bidding to unseat Olaf Scholz

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Friedrich Merz.
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