The English poet John Donne famously wrote: “No man is an island entire of itself; Every man is a part of the continent.” Although Donne became a clergyman in the Church of England, he had been born into a recusant Roman Catholic family during Elizabethan times and had a keen sense of how we are all linked, whether we like it or not. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Much of Europe today is joined together in the European Union. It imports one third of its e…
