"The aim of our patrol," it seems, is no longer "a question rather droll." Researchers and conservationists have grown increasingly alarmed by the violent behaviour of
By Jessica Reed
The United Nations have been accused of lacking a sense of initiative and strongwill when dealing with the Darfur genocide crisis, but this won't be
by Kanishk Tharoor
In the country known as the home of European politics, local politics have taken centre-stage. This weekend's elections in Belgium saw broad gains for the
Seeing as Richard Branson yesterday pledged a predicted $3bn dollars of profits from his air and rail interests over the next 10 years towards investment in new environmentally-friendly biofuel businesses,
by Jessica Reed
John Panaretos and I.
This weekend's event in Brussels was a truly rewarding experience as far as meeting experts on deliberative democracy was concerned.
I
By Jessica Reed in Brussels
I am still blogging from the European Citizens Consultation on its second and final day. As you may have read yesterday, the participants chose a
By Jessica Reed in Brussels
A couple of minutes ago here at the ECC event participants have just narrowed down their choices to three main topics they would like Europe
By Anthony Barnett in Brussels
While Jessica was down here in the hall where we are now, talking to the participants of this Citizens Consultation, I was upstairs in the
By Oli Henman of the Power Inquiry at the ECC.
As the Constitution fell apart across Europe last year, even the European political structure realised there was a problem- who
by Jessica Reed (still reporting from the European Citizens Consultation)
Daniel Debomy is the director of OPTEM, the opinion search agency who was in charge of selecting the ECC participants
By Jessica Reed in Brussels
At lunchtime I immersed myself in the group of European citizens taking part in the Consultation initiative, and chatted with Stephane Rebaudo, a french student
By Anthony Barnett
Are the 200 people here today representative of Europe? Yes and no.
They are 50 per cent women, 27 per cent are between 21 and 30 (9
