The programme, ‘Solidarity between Civilisations’ was thought of as the EU’s response to the most difficult challenge to the XXIst century, terrorism (actually I used the expression pseudo-Islamic terrorism, just to underline the fact that those who kill in name of God are no part of any...

“The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.” This is the opening sentence of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations....