THE WikiLeaks highlights make great reading, though strangely enough most of the information is no surprise to the public and no doubt to countries diplomatic services.

A PRESTIGIOUS British report says that it is too late to limit the rise in climate change to 2 degrees — so all the changes the increase in temperature will bring are now inevitable.

Do they prefer their sovereignty to be in the hands of the speculators and markets?”

WHEN close to a third-of-a-billion euro disappears without any apparent trace, there is usually an investigation about it.

IN many ways the Government’s indecision is understandable.

ALTHOUGH the twitters were tweeting and YouTube was in overdrive, letting the whole of Europe know that our Taoiseach and his team had a tipple at a confidence-raising event in Galway, nobody apparently mentioned it to him at last week’s summit in Brussels.

A VICAR saying God ‘doesn’t exist’ is allowed to preach while a farmer has been told to remove a “Jesus saves” sign from his barn.

THE idiosyncrasies of this hybrid democracy that is the EU are once again on display in the lead up toappointing people to the new positions of president and foreign minister.

THERE are less than 10 days to go before EU leaders debate a new Commission. They may decide to let the current college continue for another few months until it becomes clear whether Czech President Vaclav Klaus will ever sign the Lisbon Treaty.

THE new European Parliament kicked off its five-year term during the week, a term during which it will either grow up and become a properly democratic institution, or continue to languish in the twilight world the member states have created for it.