Business Press

This week, we look at what the business press has to say about the proposed British budget and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble's plans for a European Monetary Fund.

This week, we look at media comment on the British pound, which fell after polls showed the election may result in a hung parliament. We also look at the role of banks in Greece's debt crisis, as well as at data privacy problems.

This week, we look at media comment on Greece’s debt crisis, as well as on US commander General Stanley McChrystal’s plans to win the battle against the Taliban in Marjah in Afghanistan.

This week, we look at media comment on Germany’s decision to buy data stolen from Swiss banks, at the victory of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine’s presidential election, and at Toyota’s faulty cars.

This week, we look at media comment on Tony Blair’s testimony about his Iraq war decisions. We also look at Barack Obama’s bank-reform proposals as well as comment on Apple’s newest product, the iPad.

With Germany’s Oscar Lafontaine, head of Die Linke, deciding to leave politics, media this week have focused on the state of the political left both in Germany and Europe. We also look at comment on how US health-care reform could be affected by the victory of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

The media’s attention this week is focused not only on Haiti’s disastrous earthquake, which has flattened Port-au-Prince and killed tens of thousands of people, but also on what needs to be done when the rescue work is over.

We look at media comment on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, on the reaction of 20 high-profile Britons to news of the UK's rising population, as well as on the effect of free money on share prices.

We look at media comment on Schiphol Airport’s decision to use body scanners, on the Copenhagen accord, as well as comment on French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s failed attempt to be a champion climate crusader.