The 'Jasmine Revolution', spreading through the Arab world in the past month like a prairie fire, has highlighted the power that the internet has to create political change. Using social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter to organise themselves and to gather support, protestors are putting pressure on autocratic ...
Tomorrow I will be addressing a regional seminar attended by all four Conservative MEPs from across the South-East on our planned work for the next year. The area I represent informally for the Conservative Party in the Thames Valley accounts for a combined population of over two million, covering over ...
The Forum’s panel from left to right: Frank Nigriello, Chairman of the Oxford Economic Partnership, Steve Baker MP, Richard Hume-Rothery, Chairman, European Forum, Dr Hanns Glatz, Former Delegate of the Board of Management, Daimler AG, James Elles MEP, Roland Freudenstein, Head of Research at the Centre for European Studies (CES).
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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 ...
At a meeting of local business leaders last week, I was approached by a businesswoman concerned about how Britain and local businesses in Oxfordshire in particular were going to survive with much of the world’s economy shifting from the west to the east, particularly in India and China. One of ...
In the past few weeks, this blog has been raising issues which Mr Barroso should include in his policy agenda for the next five years. One of the most important themes which has been referred to by Mr Barroso in his guidelines document is the need for a 'European Digital Agenda', ...
