The EU still thinks Turkey has further to go before formal accession negotiations can start, but even those member states least friendly to the Turks have been making conciliatory noises: on October 10th, the foreign minister of Greece, Turkey's traditional adversary, said he saw no reason why the EU should not set a date for accession talks with Turkey at its December summit in Copenhagen.

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Lobbyists can provide plenty of emotive and colourful reasons why the WTO should not pen a set of rules.

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Europe's new Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard recently published a paper that set out the arguments why the EU should commit itself to a unilateral cut of 30% by 2020.

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Indeed there is no reason why private firms like Microsoft or News International, should not set up their own currency for internet trading and investment.

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While the Supreme Court turns down most cases, Scholastic has a good argument for why the high court should get involved: Courts in different states have ruled differently on the same set of facts.

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