14/03/2007 3:49:39 pm
Martin Wolf: "Why Liberalism Is the Right Future for a Declining Europe." In today′s Financial Times, Martin Wolf makes several good points in a column about the EU, soon celebrating 50 years:

"The EU′s great successes have been those of liberalism: the customs union; the competition policy; the single market; the abolition of exchange controls; and the creation of a single currency managed by an independent central bank."

He continues to propose priorities for the future, such as: job creation by liberalisation, modernising welfare services, liberate enterprise, invest in ideas and promote development. Perhaps needless to say, I agree.

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