An uncertain future for the EU and Belgium
The enlarged EU spent 2007 searching for a raison d’etre, while Belgium struggled with its own identity crisis.
Read MoreThe enlarged EU spent 2007 searching for a raison d’etre, while Belgium struggled with its own identity crisis.
Read MoreThe Sun is urging its readers to ‘say no to a United States of Europe’. But whatever the tabloids think, EU integration is good for Britain.
Read MoreEven with a Nobel peace prize, there’s a limit to what Al Gore can do, and so a group of determined eco-worriers are making plans to tackle the climate crisis from the grassroots.
Read MoreThe hypocrisy of the US Congress’s cynical manipulation of the Armenian genocide is a slur on the memories of those who perished.
Read MoreCities across the world took a small step for pedestrian-kind during car free day this weekend. Now it’s time to take a giant leap.
Read MoreA controversial anti-Islam demonstration in Brussels has descended from tragedy to farce.
Read MoreThe collapse of talks to form a federal government in Belgium is testing the country’s legendary capacity for political compromise to the limit.
Read MoreAcross Europe, the real challenge when dealing with minority groups is not integration but marginalisation.
Read MoreIt is time to dispel the myths that conservative Muslims often propagate about ‘the West’.
Read MorePrompted by the dire situation in Gaza, Spain, France and Italy have floated an unexpected Middle East peace drive. This initiative will almost certainly join other similar aborted road maps and peace plans slowly decaying in the graveyard of international diplomacy. What the EU needs to do is to organise a high-profile Madrid II conference to set in motion a ‘people’s peace process’.
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