Our experts tackle the month’s hottest question: should EU driving laws be standardised?

Do the courts have the right to ban the burqa?.

That same scenario is being played out in Europe today. Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty and now the EU is turning nasty, insisting that there must be a new vote and a new result.

Are GM crops the solution to our global food crisis?

Should corporate sponsors boycott the Olympic Games?

Should banks be much more tightly regulated?

Should temporary workers have equal rights?

Fish out of Water
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Does strike action have a place in modern Europe?

PLACARDS AND DONKEY JACKETS ARE, IT SEEMS, THE FASHION DU JOUR.FROM HOLLYWOOD TO MILAN TO PARIS, EVERYONE’S DOING IT.
Hollywood scriptwriters, French utility workers, Finnish nurses, London underground drivers, Italian pilots —they’re all at it, celebrating their human right to strike.
Yes, I […]

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Yes SAYS IAN WYLIE
OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES, MAJOR EVENTS LIKE THE OLYMPICS AND THE WORLD CUP HAVE PROVEN TO BE EFFECTIVE CATALYSTS FOR CITY REGENERATION. But hang on to your Olympic hoops, I hear you cry. What about Athens, which actually lost 70,000 […]

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Yes SAYS ROSIE CARR
THE LABEL “MADE IN CHINA” ONCE MEANT ONE THING ONLY; TAT. Even 20 years ago, China was known to every child in Europe as a maker of cheap toys that would fall apart after a few days, and to adults as an exporter of poor quality textiles and souvenir […]