A democratic regime is assumed to implement freedom and equality as the two critical and most important values. The … question we intend to address here is: how and why has the actual implementation of freedom and equality been changing in the …

into ‘economic government' threatening not only economic disaster but the end of the world's first supranational project … ahead to new cosmopolitan possibilities freed from the twentieth century experiences of world war and economic depression …. What are at stake are the basic social arrangements created in the post-World War era for sharing the wealth, the burdens …