The Development Of European Integration Can Be

By The Time I Returned To Czechoslovakia, I Had An Understanding Of The Principles Of The Market.

Nevertheless, There Is Another Threat On The Horizon. I See This Threat In Environmentalism Which Is Becoming A New Dominant Ideology, If Not A Religion. Its Main Weapon Is Raising The Alarm And Predicting The Human Life Endangering Climate Change Based On Man-made Global Warming.

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 Paid To Read Western Economic Texts. In A Way, The Regime Paid For Their Own Undermining.

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.