Governments lag behind the pace of globalization.
It is utopian to think government can recapture a role that is meant to embody the human purpose. The realization is dawning that a global economy has to be complemented with a global policy, as manifested by both the recent meeting in Prague and the accompanying riots, argues the Washington Post . The French foreign minister addresses the need to improve the functioning of democracy as it is always a process of evolution . He also opposes the idea of imposing democracy on other countries, which leads to opposite results in Cuba and Iraq. Over 100 countries met in Poland to draft a new declaration on democracy.