But even companies that are trying to make their executive compensation transparent find it hard to reconcile this objective with two others:the need to attract the best person for the job of CEO and the desire to align his interests with those of shareholders.
David Cameron's explicit rejection of the idea of "ever closer union" with the words, "for Britain - and perhaps for others - it is not the objective, " may prove to be the most historically significant part in his long awaited Europe speech.