Defending Europe without the US
FT News Briefing21 Feb 2025

Defending Europe without the US

Investors are urging the EU to make sweeping reforms to its debt securitisation market, Walmart has staged a major comeback, and Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba reported its fastest revenue growth in more than a year. Plus, the FT’s John Paul Rathbone explains how Europe could defend itself should Donald Trump pull US military assets.


Mentioned in this podcast:

Investors call for shake-up of Europe’s ‘failed’ securitisation market

How Europe can defend itself without US help

How a resurgent Walmart saw off the Amazon threat

Walmart points to ‘uncertain time’ with warning of weaker sales growth

Alibaba to ‘aggressively’ invest in AI over next three years

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The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, Ethan Plotkin, Lulu Smyth, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Michela Tindera, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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