Timely initiative, bad slogan. The initiative is timely but the slogan is no good. President Romano Prodi and Commissioner Chris Patten were right to get the approval by the Commission of a communication to the Council and European Parliament on "neighbourhood policy" with, in the South, Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco Palestinian Authority, Syria and Tunisia) and Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia and Byelorussia in the East. But Mr Prodi's slogan,...