President Jose Manuel Barroso's call in the Financial Times for Europe to create a single banking regulation system and a financial backstop is highly significant: Germany is believed to support a move to create at least stage one of the union rapidly, ie common supervision, with 1 January 2013 mooted as the start date.

BBC: Eurozone banking union: The big bazooka

Neowin speculates that the reason for this could be to start afresh: by confusing host websites with a new identifier, IE 11 might avoid having legacy CSS code thrown at it, dating back to the bad old days when web designers had to give Internet Explorer special treatment.

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Should we (ie, European consumers, and those elsewhere in the world who share the same worries) all start eating food only from organic farms, which produce locally, slaughter locally and avoid all artificial fertilisers, pesticides and antibiotics?

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