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The Development Of European Integration Can Be Divided Into Two Phases. The First Era Ended With The Maastricht Treaty. It Was A Liberalization Phase, With The Main Goal Of European Integration At The Time Being The Removal Of Various Barriers And Borders In Europe. The Second Phase Is A Homogenization Or Standardization Phase, One That Involves Regulation From The Top And Growing Control Over Our Lives. This No Longer Has Anything To Do With Freedom And Democracy.

Human Relations Tend To Be More Difficult When You're Dealing With Someone Who Weighs 30 Kilograms More Than You Do. That's When You Worry About Whether A Well-meaning Gesture Could Produce Complications. We Have No Problems With Countries Like Madagascar Or Bolivia, For Example. But Germany Is Our Neighbor And We Have A Shared Past. Besides, Germany Is Powerful And Ambitious And More Than Four Times As Large As We Are. It Makes Complete Sense That We Would Act Cautiously. It's Simply Realpolitik.

I Was 25 Years Old And Pursuing My Doctorate In Economics When I Was Allowed To Spend Six Months Of Postgraduate Studies In Naples, Italy. I Read The Western Economic Textbooks And Also The More General Work Of People Like Hayek. By The Time I Returned To Czechoslovakia, I Had An Understanding Of The Principles Of The Market. In 1968, I Was Glad At The Political Liberalism Of The Dubcek Prague Spring, But I Was Very Critical Of The Third Way They Pursued In Economics.

Being Often With Many Leading Politicians, I Feel Frustrated That They Do Not Listen. They Already Know. They Fully Subscribed To The Idea That Talking About 'saving The Planet' Is An Effective Way To Show Their 'caring' For Humanity And That It Is The Easiest Way To Maximize Votes Irrespective Of Any Relevant Activity Which Would Aim At The Real Needs Of People. The Global Warming Dogma Has Become A Very Easy Form Of Escapism From The Current Reality.

Then In 1969, I Spent The Spring Term At Cornell University In New York. The Invasion Of August 1968 Had Already Happened, But The Hardline Regime Took Several Months To Crack Down On Dissidents.