Unless politicians, business leaders and trade unionists find the courage to make the case for membership, it is only a matter of time until Britain leaves the EU.
"I can never recall Britain being so friendless in the EU", writes the Director of the Centre for European Reform who thinks it spells disaster for the UK whatever the fate of the Franco-German pact.
The pressure of financial crisis is changing the European Union's internal power-balance. The rival visions of two of its pioneering statesmen are in play, says Charles Grant.
Dmitri Medvedev compares ‘8/8', the date of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia, with 9/11. The Russian president is right that the war in Georgia, and
Also in openDemocracys Ukraine: the orange revolution debate:
* Alexander Motyl, How Ukrainians became citizens (November 2004)
* Marek Matraszek, Ukraine, Poland, and a free world (November 2004)
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