The prospect of EU membership is at the heart of EU policy in the western Balkans, where we are starting to show (for example in Bosnia Herzegovina) a dangerous disinclination to apply tough conditionality.

Recent events in the United States Virgin Islands revealed a profound lack of information and understanding of the issues of decolonization, self determination and political status within the political directorate and the population, and a disinclination to accept correct information from local persons.