Then there was a paper by Pierre Noel, which got a huge amount of attention in the new year by pointing out that the conventional wisdom on tackling European dependency on Russian gas was all wrong.

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U.K. gross domestic product fell 0.2% in the first quarter of this year after a 0.3% contraction in the final three months of 2011, raising fresh questions about the wisdom of the government's plan to slash spending and cut hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs to reduce its debts.

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