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Dodging the deficit
Kent Conrad deserves credit for injecting some much-needed urgency into the fiscal debate. President Barack Obama must now pick up the baton
The hour strikes for Hosni Mubarak
Egypt’s urgent need is for political power to be transferred in a prompt and orderly fashion to a new, more democratic dispensation
Pfizer’s bitter pill leaves bad taste
Closure of the research unit reinforces the need for a growth plan. It is a decision that has as much to do with changes to the pharma industry’s structure as it does with the UK’s competitiveness
Oil under control
For now, the greatest threat oil prices pose to the recovery is that central bankers lose their nerve and raise interest rates in reaction to oil-driven inflation
Israel’s chance to hail the Arab dawn
Israel should recognise that the blossoming of freedom in Egypt and Jordan would work to its long-term advantage
Bribery law will benefit business
Politicians are right to clarify the details of this law. But they should get a move on. At stake is nothing less than the ethical reputation of British businesses
Roadblocks on the way to Schengen
The rashness of admitting Romania and Bulgaria to the EU unreformed must not be compounded by discarding the best reform incentive: the visa-free zone
Time to seize a Korea opportunity
This is no time for the South’s leaders to be soft. But while talks alone will not bring the hermit state into the international fold, they are better than acts of war
Time finally to make banks safe
The too-big-to-fail problem has not been rooted out. Keeping crucial operations going while allocating losses has not yet been made workable in practice
A failure of UK budget surveillance
Britain’s MoD has long been criticised for signing up to major procurement projects that are wasteful. But few can compare with the saga of the Nimrod aircraft – the MRA4