ANGELA Merkel’s grand coalition bus has been a miracle of endurance, if not a dazzling feat of German precision engineering. The engine has revved, the wheels have turned and an impressive traction gained. Indeed, the grand coalition has motored quite a way, though the passengers have seldom...
PARIS (Dow Jones)--Top French CEOs including Total's Christophe de Margerie and Veolia's Henri Proglio are enthusing publicly about a government-backed quest for a new consensus on environmental policy.
But France's green lobby appears less content.
Indeed, the so-called Grenelle de l'environnement...
The Conservatives have allied themselves to the growing grassroots campaign to force the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reverse his decision to raise capital gains tax on business assets by 80pc from next April.
George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, hosted a meeting yesterday of...
