Europe
FT Climate Experts' Forum, 16 December
IPN Opinion article
IPN's Executive Director discusses what brings the leaders of developing countries to Copenhagen
FT Climate Experts' Forum, 9 December
IPN Opinion article
IPN's Executive Director discusses the role of sceptics in the Copenhagen negotiations
Symposium on intellectual property, innovation and health
A morning discussion in Copenhagen about the role of property rights and markets in health care and medical innovation.
The Real Threat to European R&D
IPN Opinion article
It is governments, who undermine property rights and drive investment and business out of Europe, that are to blame for the falling levels and quality of European R&D, not new competition from the fast-growng countries of Asia.
Why G8 could jeopardise the fate of democracy in Russia
IPN Opinion article
"A far larger battle looms over the survival of the West's basic institutions, such as the market economy, liberal democracy and human rights, which have been developed and preserved over centuries and made the West what it is.
St Petersburg is the first serious public test of whether Western leaders are serious about defending these institutions or whether they will bow to the caprices of the new energy tsars."
Making All of Europe 'New' Again
IPN Opinion article
The former Prime Minister of Estonia looks forward to his country's accession to the European Union and hopes enlargement will provide an opportunity to regain the momentum for reform in the existing 15 members.
Something's (no longer) rotten in Denmark
IPN Opinion article
Martin Agerup examines the Lomborg controversy and the Danish Ministry of Science decision to overturn allegations of scientific dishonesty.
"Bjorn Lomborg has been made an honest man again. At the beginning of the year, the Danish statistician's best-seller, 'The Skeptical Environmentalist,' was declared "contrary to the standards of good scientific practice," by the Danish Committee for Scientific Dishonesty. This week the Ministry of Science told the committee to take a hike."
Europe\'s Tiny Tax Havens Have Survival Skills
IPN Opinion article
One of Brian Carney\'s winning articles for the 2003 Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism
Fishing for Answers
IPN Opinion article
It's not often that one hears a European Union official issue a mea culpa. That's why Franz Fischler's comments in London on Monday were so surprising.
"The present situation is a failure, so therefore it has to change," said Mr. Fischler, the EU's Fisheries Commissioner. He was referring to the Common Fisheries Policy, which has guided EU policy on fish harvesting since 1971. Right now the state of the continent's traditional fishing grounds is approaching a crisis so severe that the EU announced last month that it may need to cut fishing fleets by as much as 60%...
The commission proposes lowering quotas further and adjusting subsidies for things such as fleet modernization and the scrapping of older vessels. But these changes ignore alternatives that would allow regulators to harness the power of the marketplace to protect fish stocks while simultaneously giving fishermen a stake in protecting their fishing grounds. One such option is an individually transferable quota (ITQ).
