The Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, is seeking to take some distance from the 27-nation bloc partly because his own parliamentarians feel under pressure from the United Kingdom Independence Party, which wants to take Britain out of the European Union altogether.
In the foreword to the volume, Van Rompuy describes the haiku as an ideal verse form for the modern world: "Its artlessness invites both the poet and the reader to pause for a while and take some distance from the daily hustle and bustle, in which we hopelessly and all too easily get entangled.
But the writer has to remain critical, to take some distance, to give credit where it's due, even if there's a temptation to throw one's lot in with, say, the huge wave of youth activism that's emerged in recent years.
An Israeli official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue, said that Israel would not boycott Mr. Williams, who periodically visits here to meet with officials, but that Israel had decided "to take some distance from him for a while".
"Then take some distance and re-evaluate and look back at it rationally.
"When we do well we take all the plaudits, so we have to take all the blame when it doesn't go as well - but we have, on both sides, to take some distance.
What comes through clearly in "Violence and Metaphysics" is Derrida's great sympathy for Levinas's thought of alterity, and at the same it is clear that Derrida is taking some distance from Levinas's thought.
Although Haxeltine et al. actually take some distance from the MLP, the transformative social innovations do meet the requirements of system change and therefore meet the theoretical requirements outlined here.
