Financial Times Commentary 3/27

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Cyprus adds to Europe’s confusion

The bailout is not significant for the eurozone as a whole but is another occasion for anger with the European project to bubble to the surface, writes Martin Wolf http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/JQ8APM/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27

New York’s wonder shows planners’ limits

There are clear analogies between Yahoo’s retreat from home teleworking and one woman’s rout of town planners half a century ago, says John Kay http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/Z8DJ7O/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27

China’s route to ‘responsibility’

The country’s economic success is raising expectations over its behaviour and granting it more say in the trade system will help, says Yukon Huang http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/FDT0RZ/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27

Google no longer needs the media

The search and advertising group wants to be rid of its Reader service because it is not manufacturing enough spaces for adverts, says Paul Ford http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/HIBV3D/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27

Investors must look at more than pay

If the shareholder spring is to blossom, the dialogue between companies and their owners must broaden out, writes Peter Montagnon http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/6AJ1DK/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27

The Boers make a plan for China

While no one forsaw the improbable relationship between South Africa and China, it is proving to be productive for both sides, writes Alec Russell http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/JQ8AU8/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27

Cyprus capital controls threaten eurozone

The longer such controls remain, the more uncertain the effects of unwinding them and the more dangerous, politically, it will become to alter course http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/CWU8SW/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27

Republicans must rethink gay marriage

The issue has the potential to turn younger voters off the party for a generation and keep it out of the White House, says Richard McGregor http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/VT4EC9/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27

India must do more to open up banking

The problem with the central bank is not that it is mistaken to issue new licences, but that it is likely to issue too few, and to do so too slowly http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/A5Q9QL/268VPS/5VBQJW/YGKSAL/LE/h?a1=2013&a2=3&a3=27