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Apple flunks a test

The technology company’s resistance to calls for shareholder empowerment is strange, considering that other California companies have adopted majority voting without apparent qualms

Hamburg’s lesson

The so-called ‘super election year’ has got off to a very gloomy start for Angela Merkel, after the German chancellor’s Christian Democrat party was defeated in Hamburg

The Arab revolt comes to Tripoli

Muammer Gaddafi’s lethal repression of unarmed protesters in Libya is shocking, but not surprising – and may be one of the final acts of a desperate regime

Taiwan strengthens its mainland ties

When the irresistible force of reunification meets the immovable object of independence, concentrating on economics remains the most sensible course

Raiding the pensions pot

Poland and Hungary would do better to preserve their second-pillar systems, and temporarily freeze payments into them, using the breathing space for real fiscal reforms

Earthquake on the Emerald Isle

Ireland’s democracy is strong. Friday’s parliamentary election offers the chance to turn a page after the nation’s devastating financial collapse

MI6 in the frame

The foreign intelligence service has come a long way, but it is debatable whether the public can be won over by a private gallery show of paintings

Pirates of the Gulf

Somali piracy can be solved only on land. That will take time, and greater international backing for any putative government that emerges from ongoing peace efforts

Another harmless G20 meeting

As for solving the world’s economic challenges, we should expect little from the G20 if this week’s meeting of finance ministers is anything to go by

Bahrain gets tough

The crackdown by security forces on protesters in Bahrain’s capital followed by the military’s takeover of the streets is the sort of treatment that risks making revolutionaries out of reformists

Regulating finance

Obama’s favourite investments

ECB leadership and Germany

Singh a song of disappointment

The difficulties of Mervyn King

Rules for the banks

Obama’s feeble budget

Egypt a threat and opportunity to Iran

The race for El Dorado is on again

Indonesia’s slipping tolerance

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