A European Affair
Tweet“Un jour viendra où les armes vous tomberont des mains, à vous aussi ! Un jour viendra où la guerre paraîtra aussi absurde et sera aussi impossible entre Paris et Londres, entre Pétersbourg et...
View ArticleA Lesson From Greek Mythology
TweetI had intended to start this blog in the new year, but two recent Council decisions and their subsequent media coverage offered useful food for thought. On the 13th December, the Council agreed to...
View ArticleUK-EU-US
Tweet-Newsflash: End of the world now scheduled for 1 April 2015- Ancient Mayan calendars predicted the end of the world’s current cycle on the 21st December 2012. Mankind has now been faced with the...
View ArticleLes Misérables: A Showcase for Collaboration
In 2004, a show-stopping performance of the award winning musical Les Misérables was hosted at Windsor Castle, attended by French President Jacques Chirac, to celebrate 100 years of Franco-British...
View ArticleA Conference with Mali’s Foreign Minister
TweetThis week I attended a conference and Q&A with Tièman Hubert Coulibaly, Foreign Minister for Mali’s interim government, which was both a privilege and a remarkable coincidence given the...
View ArticleOf Whales and Budgets
Tweet“Very like a whale” – Hamlet (Shakespeare) The whale species and the European Union’s budget have quite a lot in common. No really, they do. First, the survival and existence of both whales and...
View ArticleTwo Households
TweetTwo households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of...
View Article23 Angry Men and 4 Angry Women
TweetImagine; you are locked in a room with twelve other individuals, it’s a stifling summer’s day and you have to decide whether a teenaged Puerto Rican will be sent to the electric chair (because...
View ArticleTrade: The Golden Girdle of the Globe
TweetTrade is the golden girdle of the globe. … Where Commerce has enriched the busy coast He catches all improvements in his flight Spreads foreign wonders in his country’s sight, Imports what others...
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