Eu Didn't Advance Our [eastern Europe] Democracy

My Main Concern Is The Political Dimension Of European Integration. This Is One Of The Most Important Issues Of All, As Far As I'm Concerned. It Has To Do With Our Past, With Our Sensitivity, Perhaps Even Our Hypersensitivity In This Regard.

Climate Alarmists Believe In Their Own Omnipotency, In Knowing Better Than Millions Of Rationally Behaving Men And Women What Is Right Or Wrong, In The Possibility To Give Adequate Instructions To Hundreds Of Millions Of Individuals And Institutions And The Resulting Compliance Or Non-compliance Of Those Who Are Supposed To Follow These Instructions.

But How Can You Speed Up The Transformation Of Society In A Country As Large As Russia? Those Sounding The Moral Outcry Are The Ones Who Are Trying To Dictate Their Standards From The Outside. Of Course, That Isn't The Right Way To Go Either. One Cannot Impose Democracy From The Other Side Of National Borders, Which Is Something We Ourselves Experienced During The Communist Era. The West's Policies Toward Eastern Europe, The Helsinki Process - None Of That Really Helped Us.

Eu Didn't Advance Our [eastern Europe] Democracy By A Single Millimeter.

It Is What Makes The Reform Process An Art, Not Just A Science. You Have To Develop A Strategy That Tells You What Reform Measures You Should Follow And In What Sequence.