lux_veritatis
09.03.06, 17:19
Václav Klaus, The Bridge – Forum Dialogue, Jean Monnet Building, Luxembourg,
March 8, 2006
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What has happened since December 1998? I see four main changes:
1. The Euro was successfully launched but I don’t agree with the prevailing
interpretation that the launching itself was a convincing proof of the
positive contribution of this monetary arrangement to – however defined –
social welfare in the Euroarea. The costs – demonstrable, for example, in the
European economic growth slowdown in the last years – have not been
recognized. It has been politically incorrect to even suggest such a link (or
correlation).
2. The EU has been considerably enlarged by accepting ten new member states,
mostly former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This
increased the transaction costs of the EU ruling, decision-making, and
complying with these rules and decisions. It also increased the EU´s
democratic deficit.
3. The EU has continued – at an accelerated speed – to expand the number of
pages of its legislation which now deals with almost every aspect of human
life and human activities.
4. The ambitious attempt to accelerate the unification process in the EU by
the Constitutional Treaty has been rejected but creeping unification goes on
as if nothing happened.
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