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The European Union has, again, failed to agree its takeover directive, but countries are finding that capital markets are already forcing them to reform
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No country likes admitting it behaved badly. At least the Swiss have now done so
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A grubby spectacle
Money and muscle will be more important than ideas and personalities in Russia’s parliamentary election. But a rough democracy survives, just
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