Unlimited dead end. The Schengen agreement is cracking at the seams. Germany has already decided and is waiting for France: in the event of the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election, Paris and Berlin, as it became known to The New Times, will make a joint statement about the need to restore border control within the EU.

Why is our milk so expensive Corruption foam. Russian milk is one of the most expensive in Europe. In search of the reasons for this, Transparency International experts have found that the product of the corruption component is great in the price of the product. Experts beat the alarm: bribes and “rollbacks” will lead to the fact that real milk will disappear from domestic shelves, and all kinds of surrogates will take its place.

Gross inner happiness. An international conference with an unusual name was held at the UN headquarters in New York: “Happiness as a new economic paradigm.” Politics, diplomats, financiers, religious figures from 70 countries, led by the UN Secretary General, calculated the economic effect of the non -economic and seemingly ephemeral concept.

Tsunami in the power of China The magnificent Bo. On April 10, the official agency of Sinhua notified the world that a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPC Bo Silai is “suspected of serious disciplinary violations”, in connection with which the mentioned membership is “suspended”.

The report of the government, presented by Vladimir Putin last Thursday in the Duma, leaves a strong feeling: the current prime minister, who is also the elected president, lives in some kind of his own reality, which has nothing to do with Russian reality. The Prime Minister devoted the reporting part to the successes in the field of combating the crisis.

Nobel laureate German writer Günter Grass published a poem entitled "It Must Be Said". In his work, Grass spoke impartially about Israel and its intention to attack Iran. In a loose retelling, the key thought of the opus is: "Israel's nuclear power threatens world peace, which has recently become so fragile." I have read this poem in its entirety in several Russian translations. For my literary taste - clearly not a masterpiece.

Profit and losses of private investors The currency failed. Private investors, concerned about saving their savings from inflation, and if you are lucky, also earn, traditionally await the financial results of the first quarter with special impatience: they, as a rule, largely determine the trends for the whole year.