The government is publishing a revised national planning policy framework, following a row with conservation groups over last year's draft plans.

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Mr Cardoso has tried to keep out of their row: whatever he does, he will upset at least one of the powerful groups that support him in Congress.

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The row centres on Deutsche Boerse's most rigorous market segment, the Prime Standard, which groups companies - 379 of them so far - that meet global standards of corporate governance.

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