A number of subjects dealt with recently in this column - for example, the invitation to tone down the ambitions of the Doha Round, or the impression that links between the EU and Africa have evolved in a radical manner - come within what now seems generally acknowledged, a more mature and critical view of globalisation. Globalisation is a reality, but there is an increasing demand for it to contain some discipline.
From the European point of view, two essential elements must not be...