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Europe: A field to level
Europe: with new members keen to get their share and expanded powers for MEPs, fresh moves to reform the world’s most generous farming subsidy system face renewed resistance
Publishers battle to raise e-book prices
Electronic commerce: As books go digital, publishers are striving to reassert control over prices but will find it hard to resist the fate of film and music
Greece and the eurozone: Halcyon no more
As markets fear a debt default by Greece, the single currency zone faces the biggest test of its 11-year life – and ways are belatedly being sought to halt contagion
America’s Cup: Close to the wind
After a three-year legal fight, the two billionaires who are the only competitors in the oldest international yachting contest are finally ready to do high-tech battle on the seas
Man in the News: Akio Toyoda
When Akio Toyoda took over at Toyota, he said he and his new management team were ‘beginning our voyage in a storm’. Seven months later, the ship’s captain appears to have retreated below decks.
India: Potholes in the road
While back on track for growth to approach double digits, Asia’s third largest economy faces pressing decisions on how to translate a much-vaunted resilience into further reform
America: A fearsome foursome
As Barack Obama struggles to put his presidency on track, concerns are growing about the extent to which he relies on the views of a remarkably small number of loyal advisers
Resources: The power bill arrives
As Europe turns to wind farms and the like for a growing share of its energy supplies, the daunting scale of investment required threatens unpalatable rises in the cost to consumers
Banking: A disorderly descent
The bail-out of a once coveted Austrian institution exposes a toxic mix of politics and finance, drawing fresh attention to the weakness of Germany’s public sector banks
South Africa: Out of the bottle
Two decades since an end was declared to apartheid, companies that once looked to the west or inward are devoting attention to the ‘Brics’ – and the interest is reciprocal



