David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, outlined on 15 November his vision of European integration at the College of Europe - 20 years after Margaret Thatcher’s infamous Bruges speech. Miliband is regarded as a European ‘from the heart’ and his original appointment by Gordon Brown, a Prime Minister who appears neither to like foreigners [...]
The implications of what happened at the 17th five-year Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will not be fully known until after the National Congress in March 2008, when the new government will finally be in place and all the new members of the State Council (ministers) appointed.
Contrary to what many believe, the PRC [...]
I commend to you Tom Friedman’s op-ed piece in today’s International Herald Tribune. Let me just offer some quotes:
“Two dates - two numbers. Read them and weep for what could have, and should have, been. On Sept. 11, 2001, the OPEC basket oil price was $25.50 a barrel. On Nov. 13, 2007, the OPEC basket [...]
European of British nationality, for nearly 30 years Bruxellois. Deep believer in the principle of ’mutuality’ and Monnet’s axiom ”Thought cannot be divorced from action”, equivalent to Wang Yangming’s ”Zhixingheyi”. more.
