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Western Union’s chief executive talks about the importance of honesty – and risk-taking

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Analysis: The real reward

As Brazil, barely hit by the global crisis, lifts ever more citizens from poverty, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nears his final year in office held in high regard

When Europe’s biggest industrial group was hit by a massive bribery scandal, it hired an outsider to transform the company radically. Siemens chief executive Peter Löscher talks to the FT in The Monday Interview

Wolfgang Münchau: How to pick a new leader for Europe

The job thus defined is going to be very hard, perhaps impossible, to fill. It would require an exceptional political figure, and I struggle to put forward a name. I have my doubts about all the names in public discussion, writes Wolfgang Münchau

Editorial: Karzai’s legitimacy still in question

The Afghan leader’s ability to split the Taliban will diminish if they see he faces abandonment by his allies. A threat by the alliance to do just that may be the only way to make him change his habits

Actors who create drama of business

Making sales, hiring new staff, generating a profit are all very well – but what really excites the boardroom is corporate intrigue, writes Luke Johnson

EU to act quickly to appoint president

The European Union’s 27 heads of state and government will move swiftly to appoint the bloc’s first full-time president after the final obstacle to the job’s creation was removed on Tuesday by Vaclav Klaus, the Czech head of state

Philip Stephens: Pay parliamentarians the rate for the job

The uproar about MPs’ expenses threatens more serious damage than holding up the nation to ridicule. It promises to rob politics of the people it needs, writes Philip Stephens

Analysis: Merkel’s bold gamble

Germany: In going for economic growth rather than a reduced deficit, the chancellor is staking her second term on the success of policies she long rejected and still admits may not work

Opinion: The next stage is to work for a stronger Union

The most important role of the European Council president should be internal: to work with the council members and deal with possible problems as a troubleshooter, writes Paavo Lipponen

Possible Blair appointment grips politics

Tony Blair is not a candidate and the job does not yet exist. But British politics is already gripped by the possibility that the former prime minister could within weeks become the EU’s full-time president