EU-funded projects are returning migrants to a dangerous conflict zone, critics say

Mistrust is rising over how to implement Brexit

Facilities were launched with a fanfare but medics complain they lack equipment for complex Covid-19 cases 

Frail residents in overwhelmed sector emerge as the hidden victims of the Covid-19 crisis

The crisis exposed the system was on a knife edge, but the emergency changes are for the better

Killings in Dera’a province are testing Syrian leader’s alliance with Russia

Making it very hard to leave a company sends a worrying signal to potential recruits

News of chief executive’s departure highlights problems the tobacco group faces

Employers focus on better ways to hire wider range of people

Managers matter but it is hard to gauge what individuals contribute

The office is evolving, but are we more productive? We look at what motivates employees and how leaders get things done. Plus: canteens get a refresh, hiring by algorithm, future-proofed corporate culture, and gig work shakes up white-collar jobs

The IMO energy transition, with its clear date and standards, provides valuable lessons

Container ships may shrink in size if manufacturing moves closer to its markets. The FT's Robert Wright explores

Marine operators are looking to clean up their act

Covid-19 and price war shock US shale production. Plus: life after a $600m gamble on renewables; biofuels for aviation; ammonia’s potential for shipping; new power sources as architectural landmarks; ending human gluttony for cheap power

The collapse in the price of the black stuff is proving a boon for ship owners

Industry forecast to suffer $25bn hit this year as coronavirus changes working life

Liberty Global’s buccaneering owner sets his sights on Telefonica’s O2

Lockdown videos give us a new way to judge character

From greenhouses to screenhouses, these properties will make your green fingers twitch

It offers a way to avoid mortgage debt and landlord enrichment — and live a scaled-back life

How discarded laughing-gas cylinders were used to create glitter from litter

The flower is a motif found in writers from Eliot to Proust to Turgenev

Running downstairs is b-o-r-i-n-g when you can slide or use a fireman’s pole instead

Eric Clapton’s collaborator Duane Allman helped transform the song into a bravura rock showpiece

A star-studded cast sang from their own homes in the New York opera house’s four-hour show

A reissue of the group’s 1981 debut recalls a fecund period in Accra’s musical history

The ENO is adapting a gimmick to attract new audiences now the pandemic has hit

Singers down the years have been drawn to a mysterious track written by a man who turned his back on music

The annual parade of work by living composers went online, performed from living rooms

With summer events cancelled, the focus is on how to recoup funding and audiences

Jazz, folk and classical influences merge as the pianist revisits traditional music collected by the Hungarian composer

Termination of Northern contract signals wider problems with privatised system

Three quarters of leisure operators say margins too thin to support fewer customers, according to survey

The recruitment process in the industry is slowly starting to turn more professional

Yet another economic acronym to impress your friends with.

Their critical public service has a price attached. Seamus Murphy photographs these key workers

Join a live discussion with food historian Polly Russell at 12pm and 5pm UK time on Saturday May 2

In China, a shrinking bottom line has intensified the already tense affair of splitting profits

The company wants to upend banking but the need to mature is more urgent than ever

The opposition leader on Covid-19, dealing with Corbyn’s legacy and holding Downing St to account

The actor on playing jerks, his new Netflix specials and life as a comedian in lockdown

Hope is not lost. An army of organisations, private hospitals and industries could be mobilised

Although it suffers from lack of independence, it should be fixed rather than scrapped

Food and farm industry desperate to shift mountain of produce as pandemic decimates demand

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss whether regulators are easing up on bank capital rules, tough times for UK peer-to-peer lenders, and why Goldman Sachs is planning to bring wealth management to the masses. With special guest Harald Benink, professor of banking and finance at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Matthew Vincent and guests discuss what's behind HSBC's decision to cut 35,000 jobs in the US and Europe, Jes Staley's future as boss of Barclays after another regulatory probe, RBS's new name, and Deutsche Bank's disappearing compliance contractors. With special guest Philip Augar, author of The Bank that lived a little: Barclays in the age of the very free market.

Contributors: Matthew Vincent, regulation correspondent, David Crow, banking editor, Stephen Morris, European banking editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Emma Agyemang, FT Money reporter. Producer: Fiona Symon

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How are banks dealing with the market chaos caused by coronavirus and the new oil price war? Also, Bob Diamond has appointed his flamboyant former right-hand man at Barclays, Rich Ricci, as chief executive of Panmure Gordon, the lossmaking UK stockbroker he bought two years ago. What are the two musketeers now up to? And we also hear from special guest Katie Murray, chief financial officer of RBS.

Contributors: Host, Matthew Vincent, regulation correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Laura Noonan, US banking editor, and Nicolas Megaw, retail banking correspondent. Producers: Andrew Georgiades and Breen Turner.

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Behind the Money is a podcast from the Financial Times that takes listeners inside the business and financial stories of the moment with reporting from FT journalists around the world. You can find Behind the Money wherever you get your podcasts, including FT.com/behindthemoney.

A costly investigation into the conduct of senior Barclays bankers during the 2008 financial crisis has raised questions about what it means to prosecute allegations of corporate crime, and whether Britain’s fraud laws need overhauling. The FT's Caroline Binham and Jane Croft report.

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Behind the Money is a podcast from the Financial Times that takes listeners inside the business and financial stories of the moment, with reporting from FT journalists around the world. You can find Behind the Money wherever you get your podcasts, including FT.com/behindthemoney.

When credit markets seized up earlier in March, more than 130 companies rushed to their lenders to draw down at least $124bn of emergency credit lines to shore up cash, with Ford and General Motors drawing among the largest amounts. We look at how the auto industry is preparing for the economic uncertainty that lies ahead. With the FT's Peter Campbell and Gillian Tett.

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