Bonuses: cap dancer

Keep pounding and something will give. This seems to be Nicolas Sarkozy’s approach to international summits: find a theme, raise the stakes, make spectacular proposals while promising voters you will never, never settle for less. Bonuses are the French president’s chosen topic for the G20 summit in Pittsburgh at the end of the month. But his most radical proposals to curb compensation risk antagonising other participants, most notably the UK and the US. Sarko last week already got French banks t...