Comment: Merkel’s stealthy plan for the euro, We can do bette...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday September 13 2013     Comment   Merkel's stealthy plan for the euro   The German chancellor grasps that there is more to leadership than rhetoric – look at how much trouble the US president is in       We can do better than the defunct FTT   Rather than fiddle with the FTT to make it legal, Brussels should put some order into different countries' bank levies     Moscow should learn from past mistakes   Putin's man might have won the election but the result shows that Moscow's authority has been weakened     China revisits a bloody era in its history   As in the 1950s, the anti-graft drive ties in with a 'rectification campaign'. Malicious ideas such as democracy must be erased     UK is set up for a better retirement   Without the coalition's pension changes, just over 13m people were going to see a fall in their living standards on retirement, writes Steve Webb     We need a bit more love on Wall Street   A little more curiosity, a little more concern and a little more commitment would have prevented an enormous mistake     Insane financial system lives post-Lehman   There are a host of developments that are at best counterintuitive and, at worst, dangerously bizarre     Berlusconi demise hits recession hopes   Tycoon is losing control over his own political fate following rejection of his final court appeal. But he could still bring the government down with him, if he chooses     The shaking up of Europe's old order   Successful financial disentanglement depends on how comprehensively the old order is broken down. Neither in Italy nor Spain is the outlook clear         Opinion   Russia triumph does not start new cold war   Vladimir Putin can claim to have won this round of diplomacy but he cannot assume it is the harbinger of a new era, writes Richard Haass       Syria exposes the decline of US diplomacy   In recent decades the impulse in Washington has been to bomb, not engage. But this was not always the case, writes Kishore Mahbubani         Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.