Peter Spiegel
Peter Spiegel has been chief of the Financial Times’ Brussels bureau since June 2010. Until 2006 he covered military affairs and the defence industry for the London business daily, travelling extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan covering the ongoing conflicts. From 2006 to 2009, he was Pentagon correspondent for Los Angeles Times, after which he joined the Wall Street Journal, covering foreign policy and national security issues from its Washington bureau.
Only 10 per cent of the EU’s €347 billion flagship growth fund for Europe’s rundown regions is actually released. Billions lie idle because cash-strapped national governments cannot find the necessary matching funds. The Financial Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have published a major investigative report.