It’s that time of year again.
It’s January, snow is on the ground (and no that doesn’t mean that climate change is not happening), it’s freezing outside and … Russia is having an energy dispute with its neighbours.
Somethings never change. This time it is Belarus and the spat is about oil rather than gas, but even [...]

When the Nobel Peace Prize committee decided earlier this year to award the prize to President Obama, they could not have envisaged that it would be in the same month as he sent 30,000 more troops to war.
Giving the peace prize to the Commander in Chief of American forces involved in two brutal and bloody [...]

On the eve of the Copenhagen Summit, the EU’s attempts to portray themselves as leading the international effort to reduce carbon dioxide have been shown to be completely hypocritical by a new report.
Despite the promises by the EU’s politicians to lead on climate change, the EU’s own bank continues to invest heavily in fossil fuels, [...]

Finally someone has stated the blindingly obvious…
For years the car industry has argued that electric vehicles are the answer to climate change. They have even had the audacity to call them “zero emission vehicles”.
At the moment, electric vehicles are all the rage. At this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show visitors would have been left with only [...]

Much of the political chatter across Europe this morning is about the prospect of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair becoming the new President of the European Council, if and when the Lisbon Treaty is ratified by all Member States.
But behind the scenes at today’s Brussels Summit a huge political row is raging over not only [...]