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Christie’s chief on the responsibility of running a 200 year old institution

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Editorial: Lagarde en garde

The French finance minister is right to focus on the failure to create competitive marketplaces, in spite of the financial sector’s brutal dog-eat-dog reputation

FT ranking of EU finance ministers

In a year when finance ministers have had to throw away their usual scripts and improvise on policy, who has come out top of the FT’s ranking? Our interactive guide shows how each of the European finance ministers was ranked politically, on economic criteria, on credibility and overall

Business chiefs upbeat on European economy

Chief executives from various industries and countries in the EU speak of their continued belief in Europe’s longer term prospects

Man in the News: Mikhail Gorbachev

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the role of the former Soviet leader, lauded as the man who ‘made this possible’, remains divisive, writes John Lloyd

Analysis: Brazil’s 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

Team player at the top

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