Nearly 30 international banks have banded together under Citigroup's leadership to seek recompense from Enrico Bondi, the acting boss of Parmalat installed to keep the group operating and perhaps bring it out of bankruptcy.

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Sir Paul, who had been deputy for four years, took over as acting commissioner when his former boss stepped down in December.

BBC: Stephenson named as new Met boss

The European Commissioner's competition czar, Mario Monti, is acting in the same mindless, headline-grabbing fashion that our former antitrust boss Joel Klein did when he went after Microsoft.

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