To Talk About Planning An Economic System

I Never Intended To Be A Politician Or Office-seeker.

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.

Environmentalism Is A Dangerous Ideology Endangering Human Freedom.

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.