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Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Tuesday, February 8th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse for Credit Suisse,

the bank is on trial now for allegedly laundering money for a Bulgarian mafia,

and the EU was trying to get tough on American big tech companies,

but the White House isn't on board.

Plus, refugees coming from France often land in Dover, England.

So how do the people there feel about the arrival of these migrants?

It makes no more sense to be forward or against it than it does to be forward against the weather.

We'll talk to the writer Horatio Claire about his visit to Dover in our second of three reports

on the UK migrant crisis. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

The White House is lobbying the European Union to water downland

Mark tech regulation. The legislation would prevent companies like Google and Amazon

from using their market power to stifle competition,

but the FT reports that a senior US official wrote to the EU lawmaker who is leading

negotiations on the Digital Markets Act. They're hoping Brussels will not just target American tech

companies. The FT's Javier Espinoza says if the EU does go down the path it's on,

it could dramatically affect the way big tech does business.

Potentially, a company like Apple will be forced to open its app store to competing app stores.

This is quite a radical change because it means that what has been essentially a world garden

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