Jeanna Smialek is the Brussels bureau chief for The New York Times. She covers the EU and much of northern Europe. She was previously a US economy reporter, having covered the Federal Reserve and macroeconomics for 12 years for Bloomberg and The New York Times. She is the author of “Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on A New Age of Crisis" about the changing role of the modern Fed and is set to publish another book on the history of economics in 2026.