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News and views from the business world with Mickey Clark and Andy Verity.

There's more trouble in the eurozone with fears that Europe may have to double the size of its giant bailout fund to nearly 900 million euros. We speak to Dawn Holland, senior research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

The Bank of England's independence is called into question by one of its own policymakers. Adam Posen has told MPs on the Treasury Committee that he is worried about the Monetary Policy Committee's impartiality.

Some people could increase their pension by living in areas where more people die young. On a pension pot of 拢50,000, someone retiring in Glasgow would buy an annuity worth more than 拢100,000 more than an identical pensioner living in Winchester. Billy Burrows, a partner at Williams Burrows annuities, explains.

And benefits for the unemployed are going through a huge shakeup under the new coalition government. Kirsty McHugh, chief executive of the Employment Related Services Association, tells us why she thinks it's appropriate to pay 'Welfare-to-Work' for getting people back into jobs.