In a 2006 Gallup poll, 9% of the Muslim world thought that the Q’ran should be the only source of national law; 46% that it should be a source. Unsurprising? And what if I tell you that this is not true but is the transposition of the results of a poll of Americans, [...]

The media (in this case one paper) have recently exposed the activities of dozens of members of the UK Parliament in claiming expenses, in some cases fraudulently, and in other cases against the spirit of rules set by themselves. The exposure of the British parliamentary malpractices is an excellent example of what the media [...]

The postponed 2008 EU-China summit took place in Prague on 20 May. The Beijing 2007 summit was followed by a joint declaration of over 47 paragraphs. The post of 23 December 2007 questions why such a statement has to be issued when very little of its contents were discussed at the summit.
However, after [...]

Wir müssen die Erweiterungspolitik der EU entspannen. Gerade in Zeiten der Krise. Da hat keiner einen freien Kopf, keiner will Geld in eine Erweiterung stecken, keiner will den kleiner werdenden Kuchen an noch mehr hungrige Mäuler der Familie verteilen. Viele Erweiterer erwägen deshalb die Pille, ihre Gegenspieler gar einen Abort. Beides wäre fatal.
Folgende Thesen könnten [...]

The new report made by Minority Rights Group International (MRG) gives a bare picture about worsening situation of minority rights in today’s Kosovo. Instead to return to their homes after ethnic cleansing implemented by Kosovo Albanians after Nato intervention 1999 minorities are beginning to leave Kosovo, because they face exclusion and discrimination. This negative [...]

By Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of European Socialists
You choose – but please don’t throw your vote away!
Like it or not, Europe is a part of your government, and Brussels is one of the seats of your democracy. There’s the Town Hall, regional government, national parliament and the European Union with its [...]

On June 1st, UN climate change negotiators will sit down in Bonn, Germany for the first official round of UNFCCC negotiations.  The players have held several meetings leading up to the official negotiations - and commentators, NGOs and industry groups have all been watching the choreographed dance between the EU and the United States, particularly [...]

We’d better face it: this Korean crisis is more ominous than any in the past 20 years or so. The Pyongyang leadership - shaky, bankrupt and fearful of change - is clearly on its last legs. What do Stalinist dictators do in such circumstances ? They flex their military muscle and, if they’ve got it, [...]

Needless to say, it is the innovation pipeline — from blue-sky research to entrepreneurial development to the markets — that transforms basic ideas into new economic building blocks safeguarding our prosperity and all that comes with it including the future of the European project.
Now, while in the United States a discussion has been launched to [...]

Together with two of my ERRIN Board Members, Sylvia Schreiber of Stuttgart Region and Valentina Pinna of the Lombardy Region Chamber of Commerce, I had the pleasure to participate at a Pro Inno Workshop focusing on their new Partnering Forum Initiative to be launched this summer. The meeting took place in Rotterdam on 12 [...]

Par Guillaume Delmotte
On se souvient de l’expression de Jean-Paul Sartre : « Elections, piège à cons ». Mais s’agissant en particulier des élections européennes, je crois sincèrement que les termes seraient plutôt : « Abstention, piège à cons ».
Plus de 160 listes ont été enregistrées en France dans la perspective des échéances européennes du 7 juin. Néanmoins, cette offre politique [...]

Phenomenon of geothermal energy is not the discovery of our generation. At the very beginning of it, in 1852, Lord Kelvin focused his attention on natural heat as an enormous source of power at disposal for human being. On the other hand, knowledge on field of physics had been not enough developed in order to [...]

Enfin, c’est Jérôme Rivière, transfuge UMP et désormais directeur de campagne de la section francaise du parti paneuropéen, qui l’admet dans un mail envoyé à ses troupes au sujet d’un nouveau sondage médiocre pour Libertas:
il apparaît que les sondés ont été interrogés sous la seule appellation «Liste Libertas», sans référence aux leaders politiques qui la [...]

The leaders of the Blue Coalition, Ivan Kostov and Martin Dimitrov, asked the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to send observers to the forthcoming elections for the European Parliament (June, 7th) and national parliament (July, 5th) in Bulgaria.
The reason for this is the refusal of the Central Election Commission (CEC) yesterday to [...]

Tous les biens n’ont pas vocation à être marchands. Mais on ne peut pas non plus se borner à distinguer, comme on le fait souvent, les biens privés qui relèveraient du libre marché et les biens publics qui, par nature ou par destination, doivent être gérés par la puissance publique. Dans une société moderne, il [...]