Common Foreign Policy Is Completely Unnecessary. The

And Finally, There Is Another Danger: The Emergence Of Nonideological But Very Aggressive 'isms,' Which Are Really Quite New. Let Me At Least Name Them: We All Care About Human Rights, But I Am Afraid Of 'human Rightism.' We All Want To Have A Healthy Environment, But I See The Danger In Environmentalism. To Put It Politically Correctly, I Admire The Second Gender, But I Fear Feminism. We All Are Enriched By Other Cultures, But Not By Multiculturalism. I Am Aware Of The Importance Of Voluntary Associations, But I Fear Ngoism.

The Climate Change Debate Is Basically Not About Science; It Is About Ideology. It Is Not About Global Temperature; It Is About The Concept Of Human Society. It Is Not About Nature Or Scientific Ecology; It Is About Environmentalism, About One - Recently Born - Dirigistic And Collectivistic Ideology, Which Goes Against Freedom And Free Markets.

To Reduce The Interpretation Of The Causality Of All Kinds Of Climate Changes And Of Global Warming To One Variable, Co2, Or To A Small Proportion Of One Variable - Human-induced Co2 - Is Impossible To Accept. Elementary Rationality And My Decades-long Experience With Econometric Modelling And Statistical Testing Of Scientific Hypotheses Tell Me That It Is Impossible To Make Strong Conclusions Based On Mere Correlation Of Two (or More) Time Series.

I Also Helped Write The Five-page Statement Of Principles That Civic Forum Issued In Late November. That Was The First Public Expression Of What The New Government Wanted To Do.

My Main Concern Is The Political Dimension Of European Integration. This Is One Of The Most Important Issues Of All, As Far As I'm Concerned. It Has To Do With Our Past, With Our Sensitivity, Perhaps Even Our Hypersensitivity In This Regard.