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"We need more politicians who can demonstrate that they are not grey apparatchiks" (Photo: Peter Sain ley Berry)

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

Perusing the European news this week one text stood out above all. It was a reflection on hope by Mrs Margot Wallström, the European Commissioner in charge of Institutional Relations and Communication, delivered at the Tällberg Forum, in Sweden - 'an international meeting of people from all walks of life working for a sustainable future' as she herself describes it.

I confess to being something of a fan of Mrs Wallström's. Her work as Environment Commissioner in the Prodi Commission pu...

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"We need more politicians who can demonstrate that they are not grey apparatchiks" (Photo: Peter Sain ley Berry)

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