Dual class shares distort the marketplace, undermine the principles of shareholder capitalism, and lead to bad management

They may have a conservative-nationalist government at present, but at heart the Polish people are strongly pro-European and would surely reject populism and stay in the EU

Can the social media giant’s woes only be fixed by a rearrangement of the power balance at board level?

Empty shelves, drained petrol pumps, rising costs: the consequences of Brexit are biting hard, the British government is in denial, yet Keir Starmer and Labour still cannot capitalise politically

Offending French sensibilities is the least of the consequences of Australia’s new trilateral defence alliance with Britain and the US

Companies buying up their own shares is nothing new in the corporate world, and Apple is merely the latest behemoth to do it, but it remains a controversial practice

The ongoing struggles of beleaguered property giant Evergrande pose a huge threat not just to its own survival, but to the very stability of the Asian superpower’s financial system

The country’s nostalgic regard for its departing chancellor is understandable, but Germany’s challenge now is to move off autopilot and take greater responsibility in an unstable world

Founded in 1472, the Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank has since survived wars, plagues, depressions, popes and the Mafia – only to be brought to its knees by a badly timed takeover

The Chinese Communist Party appears to be becoming increasingly hostile towards its homegrown tech sector, but that approach comes with its own dangers

The Belarus president may have little time left in office, but it is up to the EU to ensure the transition to democracy is a peaceful one

So far, the space missions of Bezos, Branson and Musk lack the poetics, significance or purpose of Aldrin and Armstrong’s, but it’s early days yet

The US president used hearing aids to illustrate anti-competitive business practices as he sought to put a check on the continuing erosion of America’s competitive edge

Post-Brexit, British corporate assets are cheap compared to their international peers, and the FTSE index looks like a relic of a bygone era

The US Federal Trade Commission may have lost its anti-trust action against Facebook last week, but the social media behemoth could still have a case to answer

Industrialist Vincent Bolloré is using part of his $8 billion fortune to position media giant Vivendi as the key protagonist in a fast-changing landscape

Aggression towards outside investors is a sign that the Japanese heavyweight is sinking from the burden of ossified governance structures and misplaced loyalties

The microchip has changed the world since its invention in the 1950s. But after Covid caused global demand to plunge, chip manufacturers are now finding it hard to keep up with a sharp spike in orders as the world starts to emerge from the virus

The Chinese Communist Party has just introduced a three-children policy for the world’s second biggest economy. But a societal imbalance and the fact the country has more men than women bode ill for the superpower’s future

The International Energy Agency proposes the end of fossil fuel usage, but many of the world’s biggest oil-producing countries are also its poorest and most unstable, and least prepared for change