Sir, Regarding ‘EU justice chief plans civil code, privacy laws‘: So far EU approximation of consumer contract law has shied away from fixing common sanctions and common procedural rules. In Luxembourg, we just lost after 12 years a cross-border package travel case with a Belgian tour operator. He invoked a one-year statutory limit to go [...]

Sir, Regarding ‘World Food Summit deepens rich-poor country divide‘: There can be no meaningful discussion about world hunger and how to solve this problem without addressing popuation growth. The world has reached its ‘carrying capacity’: a severe shortage of water is staring many countries in the face, and agricultural land has to make way for [...]