This chapter argues that the one-sidedness of the integration process, its promotion of ever deeper economic integration, has contributed to the legitimacy crisis with which the EU is confronted at present. This crisis has, in the course of the efforts to tame the financial crisis through...

The European Employment Strategy (EES) has been put in place in order to ensure the survival of the European Social Model in view of institutional change resulting from the introduction of the European Monetary System. It has become the platform of a method of open coordination of social and...

Dieser Beitrag prüft (1) Hayeks Behauptung, daß abstrakte Verhaltensregeln und Eigentum die einzige Lösung für das Problem darstellen, individuelle Freiheit mit konfliktfreiem Handeln zu versöhnen. Er zeigt (2), daß der von Hayek vorgeschlagene Test der Verträglichkeit auf das...