Financial Times

The ex-head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has accepted a request to form a national unity government in Italy, the Financial Times reports.

Britain will call on the EU to take steps to de-escalate tensions on the Irish border amid concerns of a looming Brexit crisis, the Financial Times reports. 

International criticism is growing of the European Union’s move to curb vaccine exports – that’s on the front of the Financial Times.

The EU’s vaccine programme is “nearing crisis point” after some regions suspended giving out the jab due to shortages, the Financial Times reports.

The Financial Times says a request from the EU, asking AstraZeneca to give COVID-19 vaccine doses manufactured in the UK to its member states, “risks unleashing an explosive post-Brexit political fight”.

The Financial Times says companies have raised $400bn (£291bn) in the first three weeks of 2021, as stimulus packages from governments and central banks “cascade across capital markets”.

Moderna is launching trials of a new vaccine aimed at protecting against the coronavirus variant first reported in South Africa – that’s on the front of the Financial Times.Read more about this story here.

The Financial Times reports that Poland is leading the charge within the European Union to push new sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Alexei Navalny and the protests over the weekend.