Much has happened in Europe since the party last reviewed policy in The Future of Europe (policy paper 56) in 2003: there has been a substantial enlargement of the European Union, significant uncertainty about its institutional arrangements following signature of the constitutional treaty and growing challenges (such as climate change, globalisation, migration, criminality and human rights abuses) in many of the policy areas in which the EU operates.
Ros Scott points out the flaws in the Government's transport policies and highlights local solutions
Heather Kidd describes a radical approach to affordable housing in a rural district
Paul Bodenham describes Operation Noah
Paul Burall explains why we may need to start worrying about nanotechnology, although probably not for the reasons the popular press have been promoting
Murray Gray looks at a new nature conservation initiative
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