For good reasons or bad, early membership of the currency union has become the litmus test of being a good European.

The timber saws smoothly.

Their money comes from a modest business that involves collecting, refilling and reselling inkjet cartridges and it's successful enough to afford a semi-decent four-bed in a semi-decent LA suburb.

Mr Chen - a member of the national politburo as well as the Shanghai boss - is accused of nepotism and corruption on a grand scale: protecting political allies, granting preferment to his family and looting Shanghai's pension fund.