Madam, – Frank McDonald’s summation of the Copenhagen climate summit makes for depressing reading (Opinion, December 21st). I was especially struck by the second last sentence of the piece which said “And it’s all happening without a nod in the direction of the old world – notably Europe”.
As the European Union is the largest and richest trading bloc in the world, maybe it is time to remind other countries who do deals behind our backs of that fact. After all, wasn’t Lisbon about making the EU a bigger player on the world stage? – Yours, etc,