Business

Switzerland
Questioning the secrecy
Swiss banking secrecy came under yet another attack after Germany again bought stolen bank data to catch tax evaders last month. Now the Swiss are wondering if their treasured tradition of financial secrecy is worth it after all.
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Britain
The lucrative loophole
In England, thousands of people have lost their life savings to rogue stockbrokers in scams known as "boiler room" deals. Yet the lack of European-wide coordination allows such scams to continue out of the reach of prosecutors.
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Poland
What crisis?
Eastern Europeans are faring much worse in the economic crisis than their western counterparts, with one exception: Poland. Its economy was the only one on the continent to expand in 2009 and the zloty is continuing to rise against the euro.
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Germany
From coal to culture
It was once a landscape of coal and steel. But in Germany's former industrial heartland, empty factories have become galleries and theaters, and the entire region won the European Capital of Culture designation this year. How did the Ruhr Valley transform itself into a center of high culture?
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Germany
Big top bankruptcies
Germans have always been fond of their circuses but now scores of them are struggling to survive the economic downturn. From smaller companies to large established ones, the big tops are failing to fill seats, leaving many of them on the verge of bankruptcy.
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