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The Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Individual Rights or Welfare-State Privileges? Part 1

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Thirty years ago, British economist William R. Lewis wrote a monograph for the Institute of Economic Affairs in London entitled Rome or Brussels...? His theme was the contrast between the original motives and purposes behind the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1957 through the Treaty of Rome and what the EEC had become by the early 1970s with its headquarters in Brussels. Lewis explained that it was “designed to establish free trade and a free economy in the territory of its members.” Part 1 | Part 2 ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2000, a committee of the European Union (EU) issued a draft charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The member governments in Western and Central Europe are expected to vote on and accept this charter as the basis for articulating and defending human rights within the jurisdiction of the EU. The charter’s preamble states that its purpose is to create a closer union among the peoples of ...

The Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Individual Rights or Welfare-State Privileges? Part 1

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Thirty years ago, British economist William R. Lewis wrote a monograph for the Institute of Economic Affairs in London entitled Rome or Brussels...? His theme was the contrast between the original motives and purposes behind the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1957 through the Treaty of Rome and what the EEC had become by the early 1970s with its headquarters in Brussels. Lewis explained that it was “designed to establish free trade and a free economy in the territory of its members.” Part 1 | Part 2 ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2000, a committee of the European Union (EU) issued a draft charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The member governments in Western and Central Europe are expected to vote on and accept this charter as the basis for articulating and defending human rights within the jurisdiction of the EU. The ...

Nationalism and Classical Liberalism

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For forty-five years, Europe enjoyed peace. But it was in the form of an "armed truce" called the Cold War. On the one side of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union maintained its through the threat — and occasional use — of force, as in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. On the other side of the lron Curtain, the nations of Western Europe set aside their age-old conflicts and animosities out of fear of the Soviet Union — with America's armed presence and political paternalism serving to "keep the peace." Yet Europe's peace on the basis of a divided continent was artificial. Consequently, it required rectification at some point in time. That point arrived in November 1989, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. In less than two years, every one of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe was gone. Every one of the republics making up the USSR declared either its independence or its sovereignty. And within ...

The Causes and Consequences of World War II, Part 2

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World War II was not a war between freedom and tyranny. Rather it was a conflict between alternative systems of collectivism. By the 1930s, there was not one major country devoted to and practicing the principles of classical liberalism — the political philosophy of individual liberty, free-market capitalism and free trade. Regardless of the particular variation on the collectivist ...

The Causes and Consequences of World War II, Part 2

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World War II was not a war between freedom and tyranny. Rather it was a conflict between alternative systems of collectivism. By the 1930s, there was not one major country devoted to and practicing the principles of classical liberalism — the political philosophy of individual liberty, free-market capitalism and free trade. Regardless of the particular variation on the collectivist ...