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SUMMARY
In MPP′s 7th issue we continue our presentation of 2004′s Index of Economic Freedom, this time - on the eve of EU expansion - focusing on the reports concerning the EU′s ten new member-states. Thereafter in our Europe section we spotlight the legislative priorities of the European Peoples′ Party and provide a mathematical analysis of the voting systems in the European Council, to wit, the system ratified in the Nice Treaty, the proposals of the Constitutional Convention, and the compromise elaborated by eminent scholars hailing from Krakow′s Jagiellonian University. The next important section of this issue is made up of materials devoted to Hungary′s Right. In the first of them Kornel Nagy describes the history of Fidesz, the Federation of Young Democrats. This section also includes an address delivered by Fidesz′s leader Viktor Orban, along with documents on his party′s program. Next we offer an insightful essay on US-European relations written by George Weigel. His essay was recently published in New York′s First Things. Among MPP 7′s materials on Poland our readers will find a significant proposal for tax reform tabled by the Sobieski Institute and an examination of Poland′s institutional preparation for EU membership by T. G. Grosse of the Institute for Public Affairs. This issue′s section of book reviews is much broader than in previous issues. Here readers will find reviews of Zdzisław Krasnodębski′s Demokracja peryferii [Democracy in the peripheries]; Polska i Białoru¶ [Poland and Byelorussia], edited by Adam Eberhardt; Hellfire Nation by James A. Morone; and The Roaring Nineties by Joseph Stiglitz. |
