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At Aquinore. UK. Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, February 19th, and this is your

FT news briefing. The European Union plans to hit Apple with an antitrust penalty.

And German companies are pouring money into capital projects in the US.

Plus, we take a look at what Alexei Navalny's death means for the opposition movement in Russia.

I think if you're Putin, you're very much feeling really extremely confident right now.

I'm Josh Gabbardouillon in for Mark Filipino,

and here's the news act seems to be having an impact, at least in the German

corporate world. German companies nearly doubled their investment in U.S. projects last year.

The Biden administration has been offering tax incentives to onshore jobs and speed up the energy

transition, but a strong U.S. economy has helped too.

Trucks and SUV projects from Volkswagen, battery production

for Mercedes-Benz, and petrochemical plants from BASF were all among the

record investment. Russia's main opposition leader Alexia Navalny died in prison on Friday.

Officials haven't stated a cause of death for him,

but many Western governments are saying Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin

are responsible. Here to explain what Navalny's death means for the opposition effort in Russia is the F.T's Max Seton.

Hi Max.

Hi, Max.

So what's been the reaction since Navalny's death on Friday?

Well, the beyond this has been very muted because we're approaching this week the two-year

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