Mary Dejevsky
One of Britain’s most respected commentators on Russia, the EU and the US, Mary Dejevsky has worked as a foreign correspondent all over the world, including Washington, Paris and Moscow. She is now the chief editorial writer and a columnist at The Independent and is a frequent guest on radio and television.
As interior ministers from several EU states gather to discuss immigration in Paris, French president Nicolas Sarkozy's drive against illegal Roma settlement has been vilified at home and abroad. A British columnist takes his defence. 
Although the continent is still not short of beer-drinking, Daily Mail/Express-reading, Europhobic Britons forever perplexed by foreign ways, a new generation, more in tune with other European social attitudes, is coming to the fore, argues Mary Dejevsky. 
With Tony Blair and David Miliband as possible candidates for top EU offices, London is aiming for greater involvement in Europe. However, as Mary Dejevsky argues in The Independent, conservative David Cameron may call a halt to this trend before it makes any impact.