You may not know it from the Daily Mail's front page headline – "PM's ultimatum on plastic bags" – but the German parliament has just voted to save the Eurozone from collapse, something that would have brought much of the EU economy down with it. Plenty of British jobs, exports and savings would be in the wreckage. So it's two cheers for the Bundestag, but don't break open the brown ale yet. If that wasn't enough to concentrate a few minds, the European commission has also decided, via a rabble-rousing speech from its president, José Manuel Barroso, to back the financial transactions tax (FTT or Tobin tax) on global t ... (full story)