Listening to the debate last week in the European Parliament concerning Turkey's progress report towards joining the European Union, I began to think, as others did, that little progress was being made towards this ultimate objective. And more substantively, I began to ask the fundamental question of what was now ...
The internet has revolutionised our access to information, reducing the influence of media monopolies to dictate views and empowering individuals to have a wider knowledge of their environment. Picking up on this point I made in September (see here), the issue of empowerment of the individual has been in the ...
Recent weeks have been dominated by the uncertainty of the Czech President's signature on the Lisbon Treaty. Even today, after the meeting of the European Council in Brussels, the decision of the Czech Court has not yet been finally announced: nor has the Czech President's signature been given.
The outlook for ...
