David Cameron will meet Angela Merkel on Friday to discuss their differing visions for the future governance of the EU. Merkel is keen on a Europe-wide tax on financial transactions, Cameron says it will hit Britain's financial sector hardest. The Conservative leader spoke earlier in the week about bringing powers back from Europe, while Merkel told her party conference that closer political union is what is needed.
In the studio to discuss this: Zoe Williams, Anne Perkins and Michael White.
Also this week: polls show a growing divide between men and women in support for the Conservatives. It has worried the party leadership enough to seek to appoint a new special adviser to look at policies "through a woman's eyes".
And as reports circulate that the government getting cold feet about the power of its e-petitions website, we look at how it has worked so far.
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