Two weeks on the beach in Cancun ought to be enough to banish winter blues – but is unlikely to next week for Connie Hedegaard and the other EU climate negotiators. Never mind that there probably won’t be time for them to feel the sand between the...

The decisions that are made over the next three months will shape Europe’s international role in the future. The script that drives global policy making is being rewritten, in response to the financial crisis, climate change and global security ch...

From the perspective of the UK, we look to the Netherlands for a generous, knowledge-based and well managed approach to aid. You are admired: for having taken the size of the aid programme out of political debate, by mandating a fixed 0.8% share;...