Profit explosion. Explaining why his group voted against the European Parliament's resolution on the Lisbon Strategy (see this column yesterday), Francis Wurtz, President of the European United Left group, put forward various arguments, one of which is worthy of further consideration. He quoted an article from “The Economist” which “acknowledges an explosion in the profits of large companies. Their share of GDP in Europe has reached a level which has not been seen for 25 years (…),...