Different situations. Taking it all in all, the commotion caused by the President of the General Affairs Council, Louis Michel, about non-governmental organisations (see this heading in our bulletin dated 26 July) was not a bad thing, as it forced us to think about an essential problem hitherto evaded - that of the nature of movements that claim to come under the "civil society". It is true that the stance taken by the Belgian Minister seemed more like the reaction of a vexed and wounded...