Bill Emmott
Bill Emmott (b. 1956) is a writer and consultant on international affairs. He writes regular columns for The Times in Britain and La Stampa in Italy. Currently chairman of the London Library, he was editor of The Economist from 1993 until 2006.
Thirty years ago nobody could have foreseen the process that brought the Warsaw Pact countries into the European Union. Now that the same is happening to Arab nations, the EU must offer them the same opportunity to strengthen democracy: the true prospect of membership.