(Article based on a lecture given by Ms. Jacoby in Spain) A turbulent political spring in Europe has driven immigration to the top of the agenda for today\'s European Union summit. Tony Blair and JosÈ Mara Aznar, the UK and Spanish leaders, hope to steal the issue from the far right by co-ordinating national policies on illegal immigration. This is not a bad idea but it is far from enough. The long experience of the US with immigration suggests that gaining control of borders is only a first step toward a successful policy. At least as significant in the long run as the number of immigrants are the terms under which they come and what happens to them once they arrive. Most critically, are they allowed and encouraged to assimilate?

Suecia es sinÛnimo de ambientalismo. Los suecos han sido l'deres de las pol'ticas verdes en Europa. Todos los meses, delegaciones de otros pa'ses llegan a Estocolmo a aprender sobre la protecciÛn del ambiente. En los aÒos 70, con cierta razÛn se admiraban las pol'ticas ambientales suecas, pero lamentablemente Èstas han perdido sus bases cient'ficas en los ˙ltimos 15 aÒos, convirtiÈndose en un alarmista manejo de posibles riesgos, especialmente en el control de materias qu'micas. Muchos cient'ficos suecos est·n molestos y uno de ellos, Robert Nilsson, ha tenido la valent'a de objetar p˙blicamente. Lamentablemente, por ello ha sido insultado por numerosos ambientalistas, dentro y fuera del gobierno. Parece que la libre expresiÛn cient'fica conlleva un alto precio en Suecia hoy.

My basic problem against the [Commission on Intellectual Property Rights] report, as I focus on chapter 5 on copyrights, is the archaic mindset that seems to be the foundation of much of what has been written. Firstly the report assumes that all knowledge is sacred and therefore must be in public domain. Secondly, that intellectual property rights restrict the flow of ideas. A third fascinating proposition is that societies can close the knowledge gap only through theft and imitation. This one is clearly racist. More on this point later.

The activists know that killing patents will kill private investment, and they see that ó not the eradication of AIDS or any other disease ó as their goal. Blinded by their hatred for capitalism, and for the role of profit in the search for cures, they continually demand that patents be replaced with more government funding and a system of licenses to generic drug companies