mais do surpreendente Vaclav Klaus

Um sumário do discurso do Presidente da República Checa no Parlamento Europeu:

• I would like to repeat (...) my conviction, that for us (...) there is no alternative to the European Union membership (...).
• The citizens of the Czech Republic feel that the European integration has an important and needed mission and task (...) [:] removing barriers and rationally selecting issues that should be solved at the continental level (...). [However] methods and forms of European integration (...) have quite a number of possible and legitimate variants (...).
• (...) one or another institutional arrangement of the European Union is not an objective in itself; but a tool for achieving the real objectives. These are nothing but human freedom and such economic system that would bring prosperity. That system is a market economy.
• It is no surprise that these people [that have experienced "communism" and a "dysfunctional centrally planned and state-administered economy"] are more sensitive and responsive to any phenomena and tendencies leading in other directions than towards freedom and prosperity.
• The only solution is liberalisation and deregulation of the European economy.

Este senhor tem uma EU muito diferente do mainstream em mente e parece-me que vale a pena considera-la.

Cuidado é com os exageros. Esta crise foi precipitada (para não dizer causada) porque meninos grandes andaram a brincar ao monopólio com o dinheiro dos outros.

É que não há forma de escapar a isto: o mercado não soube valorizar devidamente (e.g., 'and to cut a long story short') um bem tão concreto como casas. E valorização é a tarefa central dos mercados.