The president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, has announced that the country must accept a 10-billion euro bailout, or face going bankrupt. The deal would involve a tax of up to 10% on the people of Cyprus’ savings. Michael Fuchs, economic advisor to Angela Merkel and deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union, and Bernadette Segol, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, discuss whether they believe this to be the correct course of action.
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Today 18/03/13: Cyprus bailout ‘completely unfair’
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BBC - A Brief History of Mathematics - 06 The Mathematicians who helped Einstein
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute…
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BBC - A Brief History of Mathematics - 05 Carl Friedrich Gauss
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute…
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BBC - A Brief History of Mathematics - 04 Evariste Galois
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute…
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BBC - A Brief History of Mathematics - 03 Joseph Fourier
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute…
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BBC - A Brief History of Mathematics - 02 Leonard Euler
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute…
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BBC - A Brief History of Mathematics - 01 Newton and Leibniz
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute…
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More or Less: High frequency trading
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The birth of The Simpsons
Cartoonist Matt Groening remembers how he created The Simpsons 25 years ago.
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RP RIP - the demise of BBC English
George Bernard Shaw ridiculed the British obsession with class, recognising that its most powerful expression was not in what someone said, but how he or she said it. Using a wealth of archive, we hear how the drive to hide linguistic, geographical roots often went hand in hand with a desire to be seen as part of the metropolitan set and we hear about the post war levelling and the move away from RP.
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