Tax evasion and avoidance are abhorrent, especially when governments need every penny, but tying these issues to common EU taxes and own resources is inappropriate, writes Julie Girling MEP
Policies should focus on long-term approaches to a sustainable biofuels market development, rather than short-term reactive approaches - writes Francis X. Johnson
Leaders perform best when they are experts in the core business of their organisations and Alex Ferguson 'walked the walk' as a player before becoming a football manager - writes Amanda Goodall
With more than 100 detainees on hunger strike crying out in protest at treatment in Guantánamo, the torture legacy of the infamous gulag is poised to enter another humiliating chapter – claims Jake Olzen
Beppe Grillo's success is only the latest of many examples showing the importance of social media in modern politics. In light of that, Daniel Mason asks why seven EU commissioners are still absent from Twitter
Margaret Thatcher was 'nasty, brutish and short of class', and it would be utter hypocrisy to stay silent about her divisive legacy now that she has died, claims George Galloway MP
Severe reductions in European spending on development aid are causing 'very real damage' to the world's poorest people, it is claimed – after a report reveals the extent of the budget cuts last year
European defence cooperation has stalled and might have gone into reverse gear, reports Justin Stares from the European Defence Agency annual conference in Brussels
The EU and IMF could have avoided calling on depositors by using the oil and gas reserves in Cyprus as collateral for part of the bail-out instead - says Scott Livermore