Wake Up to Money - 26/05/2010

European ministers and commissioners meet again in Brussels today to try and avert the growing risk of a second global financial crisis. Trouble in Korea and concerns over Spanish banks have revived worries that financially strapped eurozone countries might fail to keep up the payments on their debts. The Communication Workers Union will vote today on whether to ballot members for the first national strike at BT since 1985. Former MPs with less-than-spotless CVs are going for jobs in the private sector. We look at what former high profile politicians offer big business. And, the coalition government confirmed yesterday that there would be increased compensation for Equitable Life policy holders who lost money when the insurer nearly collapsed a decade ago.