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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