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Splendid isolation

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After the euphoria of standing up to a Europe seen by Conservative MP Bill Cash as an "undemocratic fantasyland", Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford warns "Bulldog Britain" may soon discover that isolation is not splendid at all.

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  • Bill CASH. Conservative Party MP (from London);
  • Sarah LUDFORD. Baroness, Liberal Democrats. British MEP (from Strasbourg);
  • Thomas KLAU. Paris Bureau Chief, European Council on Foreign Relations.

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Cataclysm in Japan (part 2)
16/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Cataclysm in Japan (part 2)

In the face of its worst disaster since World War Two, faced with a major nuclear accident and rolling power outages, François Picard’s panel explains why Japan has shown amazing resilience. But will a nation that for two decades has been struggling to get out of the economic doldrums fall into irreversible decline or come out of it all galvanized?
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Cataclysm in Japan
16/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Cataclysm in Japan

In the face of its worst disaster since World War Two, faced with a major nuclear accident and rolling power outages, François Picard’s panel explains why Japan has shown amazing resilience. But will a nation that for two decades has been struggling to get out of the economic doldrums fall into irreversible decline or come out of it all galvanized?
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Quake shakes faith in nuclear power (part two)
15/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Quake shakes faith in nuclear power (part two)

Arguments abound over whether it was a good idea to build nuclear power plants in a seismic area, over the scale of the disaster at the Fukushima complex, and over the viability of atomic energy in the West.
Quake shakes faith in nuclear power
14/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Quake shakes faith in nuclear power

Arguments abound over whether it was a good idea to build nuclear power plants in a seismic area, over the scale of the disaster at the Fukushima complex, and over the viability of atomic energy in the West.
Fear and Fanaticism: has the US right got it wrong on Islam? (part 2)
11/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Fear and Fanaticism: has the US right got it wrong on Islam? (part 2)

Is it radical Islam or religious intolerance that's on the rise in the U-S? Hearings in Washington spark cries of a witchhunt.

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