Monday, 17 August 2026Europe · Analysis
Independent · Brussels & Berlin
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Europe Correspondent
Clara Devereux has reported on European Union institutions since 2013, first covering the Council of the European Union for a wire service and since 2019 writing analysis of Commission legislative procedure. She reads the comitology registers so that readers do not have to.
Economics Editor
Tomás Lindqvist writes on monetary policy and European capital markets. He spent six years as a fixed-income analyst before moving to journalism, and covers the European Central Bank with a bias towards the published data rather than the press conference.
Technology Editor
Ana Belić covers the regulation of digital infrastructure in Europe. She has followed the drafting of European technology law since the General Data Protection Regulation, and reports on how enforcement works in practice, which is usually a different story.
Central Europe Correspondent
Marek Jankowski reports on politics in central and eastern Europe, with a focus on how national elections change a member state's behaviour inside the Council. He has covered every Polish parliamentary election since 2011 and reads four of the region's languages.
Security and Defence Editor
Hélène Mercier writes on European defence, NATO and the continent's relationships beyond its borders. She reported from Kyiv and the Baltic states between 2022 and 2024, and covers procurement and force structure rather than communiqués.
Energy and Industry Correspondent
Peter van den Berg covers European energy markets and the industrial economics of decarbonisation. He worked in grid planning for eight years before turning to journalism, and is unusually interested in connection queues.
Ideas Editor
Sofia Marchetti commissions and writes NewsBriefing's longer essays. She was previously an academic historian of European integration, and edits the section on the principle that an argument should be able to survive its strongest counter-argument.