- Greece’s new finance minister proposed a “menu of debt swaps”, which involve exchanging existing loans for growth-linked bonds, that fall short of a headline write-off of the country’s €315bn foreign debt
- The first installment of a two-part FT investigation into how the west failed to halt Russia’s march on Ukraine reveals why German leader Angela Merkel believes there will be no quick end to the conflict
- Russia-backed separatists announced plans to boost their ranks facing government troops in Ukraine’s breakaway east with a draft to mobilise 100,000 people after the collapse of ceasefire talks
- Details about Hezbollah leader’s assassination could intensify shadow war with militant Lebanese group (Washington Post)
- Europe’s carbon-trading market was supposed to be capitalism’s solution to global warming. Instead, it became a playground for gangsters and international crime syndicates (Foreign Policy)
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Smart Reads 3 February 2015
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