An interesting article which I found in the Economist archive. If you have access, read the comments to this article, which I found particularly interesting.

Last week the Council of the European Union – the principal decision making body in the EU – adopted a very encouraging resolution on a comprehensive European anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy plan.

This is an excellent article - if you click on 'read the story' it gives a lot of background on tracking suppliers of counterfeits.

The EU is famous for launching new, and usually well-funded, projects aimed at making Europe the most ‘competitive economy in world by 2010’...

Knowledge economy…knowledge worker…knowledge creation…knowledge society….