Europe on the measure of the strong

From the very beginning the steps towards unification of European countries have been founded on the personal incentives of politicians, but not on broad democratic agreement of the people. That method has never been abandoned: even the huge administrative apparatus in Brussels that makes important decisions without any democratic control could be seen as natural consequence of such praxis. It is just because of such political behaviour where important political documents and decisions are made out of the eyes of the public, which the great political incentives, such as referendum on the European Constitution, have failed. If we ask ourselves where it has gone wrong the possible answer is that EU has been made according the needs of the rich and mighty countries. The states that are located on the periphery of EU have no political influence on the main decisions, and cannot decide about their own economic development. They are simply forced to adapt ourselves to the interests of the most advanced. But the protests all over EU show that the general economic concept of the EU is wrong and that it will generate crises in the long run

An apology of individualism

The text intends to question the validity of individualistic approach within the framework of the international economic crisis. The author claims that the chaos in the world economy is the result of the distortion of the principles of functioning self-regulating market process and its inner coherence. It reappraises the validity of the claims for state intervention and points to possible consequences of overregulated government measures. In order to defend individualism against harsh critics, the author exposes its main postulates; the faith in the spontaneous creation and operations of institutions; methodological individualism; use of subjective knowledge in the entrepreneurships; formal and substantive equality; liberalism and paternalism.