 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
SUMMARY
MPP's newest issue offers its readers a range of works concerning: 1) Slovakia's tax reforms as engineered by Vice-Premier Ivan Miklos; 2) the mechanisms Ireland employs to secure EU funds; and 3) a broad selection of papers on Polish matters. Among the latter we showcase certain new proposals for overhauling public finances (vide: P. Szałamacha and R. Sowiński) as presented by this season's debutant, the Sobieski Institute. Thereafter follows a block of materials on Polish-German relations (B. Jałowiecki, M.A. Cichocki, P. Semka). Among this issue's texts on Europe we present UNICE's position on the Lisbon strategy and carefully examine why Poland has defended the system for electoral apportionment devised in Nice. Next, MEP Daniel Hannan's provides a strong commentary on Europe's constitutional debate. In this section we also discuss the reports published by the Carnegie Endowment (CSIS) in the wake of the war in Iraq. This issue also devotes significant space to Estonia. In addition to a broad analysis of Estonia's political history, we also present addresses by former Premier Marta Laara and Minister for Foreign Affairs Kristiiny Ojuland, along with the text of the program hammered out by the country's governing coalition. All of the above matters are controversial. But as we note in the introduction to this issue: It is up to us, Europeans, to reconcile two crucial elements - the inherent wish to maintain the identity of our particular communities, and the will dictated by our convictions to make Europe our shared abode. |
