Rotherham and Barnsley Liberal Democrats Speeches http://www.rotherhamandbarnsleylibdems.org.uk/speecharchive.php Recent Speeches from Rotherham and Barnsley Liberal Democrats en-GB Rotherham and Barnsley Liberal Democrats http://www.rotherhamandbarnsleylibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Rotherham and Barnsley Liberal Democrats 2010-03-13T23:19+00:00 United Kingdom Icesave, Iceland and the EU: whose debt is it anyway? http://www.rotherhamandbarnsleylibdems.org.uk/speeches/000003/icesave_iceland_and_the_eu_whose_debt_is_it_anyway.html Let's start by what I'm not going to talk about 2010-02-18T12:00+00:00 Keynote address on the Baltic Sea Strategy http://www.rotherhamandbarnsleylibdems.org.uk/speeches/000002/keynote_address_on_the_baltic_sea_strategy.html The EP position on the Baltic Sea Strategy 2009-09-18T15:26+01:00 Is it time for an Arctic Charter? Perspectives on governance in the Arctic Region http://www.rotherhamandbarnsleylibdems.org.uk/speeches/000001/is_it_time_for_an_arctic_charter_perspectives_on_governance_in_the_arctic_region.html I attended my first meeting of this conference six years ago in Rovaniemi, Finland. At that conference one of the important presentations was the one by Professor Oran Young on Arctic governance. Even then he made it clear that all was not as it should be if we were properly listening and ready to protect this fragile area of the globe and to heed the warning signals it was giving off in relation to our world. His words and the description by Sheila Watt-Cloutier, from the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, of the subtle changes to the nature of her homeland remained with me for long afterwards. 2006-08-03T16:00+01:00