Tony Barber

Tony Barber is Europe Editor at the Financial Times, writing on European business, economic and political news. From 2007 to 2010 he was the newspaper’s Brussels bureau chief, following five years as Rome bureau chief and four years heading up the Frankfurt bureau. Before joining the FT Barber worked for The Independent newspaper, from 1992 to 1997 as east Europe editor and Europe editor. He began his career with Reuters in 1981 and spent the subsequent eight years based in the US, Vienna, Warsaw, Moscow and Belgrade.