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5 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Guy Sorman on how the welfare state is destroying the EU
The Greek financial crisis can't be overcome with an isolated rescue operation because it has its roots in the contradictions of European policy, economist Guy Sorman writes in the conservative daily ABC: "What we need to understand now is not the Greek crisis itself but what led to it. It's not about managing Greece's or Spain's debts. It's about changing the strategy - or sticking to it - that is leading to Europe's demise. The tragedy of the euro reaches far beyond the individual case of Greece and is financial only in appearance. … The foundations of the European Union are not compatible with the way the European states are governed. In other words, the European Union is liberal in its origins, conceived as such in its political philosophy and its economy, and it is only possible to govern it in a liberal manner. Meanwhile all the national governments, even if they were conservative, have in practice created huge welfare states inspired by socialist ideas."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU Policy, » Fiscal Policy, » Economic Policy, » Europe
Environmental protection as an opportunity for Poland's conservatives
French author Guy Soram advises the Polish right to follow Britain's example and put environmental protection at the top of its agenda. "Remaining silent on environmental issues will only damage the Polish conservatives. By so doing they are allowing the left to monopolise environmental issues. The green movement is still very weak in Poland. Conservative parties shouldn't wait until a strong environmental movement emerges on the left of the political spectrum, but should move now to prevent such a development... They must adopt a clear stance and resist the mystic-religious approach."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Environmental Policy, » Poland
Sex scandals in democracy and monarchy
Poland is gripped with a sex scandal involving Vice President and Agriculture Minister Andrzej Lepper. Former female colleagues have accused him of granting jobs in his Samoobrona party only in return for sexual favours. The media speculate on the fall of the Kaczynski government. "The way a population reacts to sex in high places says a lot about the country in question," concludes French philosopher Guy Sorman. "This reaction is the measure of whether a country is Christian and democratic. For France, the answer to both questions is 'No.' Socialist President Mitterrand had two wives; for years he supported several lovers with state funds; and had an illegitimate child. He made no secret of it and even so there was no moral indignation and no huge scandal... We have presidential elections but we actually elect a king. The people of France think that a president commands the same privileges as a monarch. And any child knows that includes the rights to have lovers."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Poland
Defending freedom of expression
The daily has published an appeal in support of Robert Redeker signed by a score of public figures. "A handful of fanatics is currently brandishing so-called religious laws in order to call into question our country's most fundamental freedoms. This threat comes in addition to the mutterings here and there in Europe that provocation should be avoided to spare supposed foreign sensibilities ... Times are once again hard in Europe. This is no time for cowardice. We therefore solemnly appeal to the authorities not only to continue to protect, as they already are doing, Robert Redeker and his family, but, in a strong political gesture, to pledge to meet his material needs as long as he is danger, just as the British authorities did throughout the duration of the Rushdie affair."
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The Günter Grass affair fuels debate
"Sixty years of lies, just show how it is possible to be a great artist and greatly immoral," thunders French essayist Guy Sorman about Günter Grass. "In this affair, which is primarily German, if the artist is guilty, he is neither more nor less so than his readership and the idolatrous media ... To those, within and without Germany, who today confess their short-sightedness and errors of judgement and attempt to justify them, let us remember that it was possible not to wallow in the fetishism of Grass. ... We guard too much against the democratically elected politician because we see him coming his face plain to see. We do not guard enough, on the other hand, against the artist when his talent disguises him, and especially when that talent is great. We can never be distrustful enough of magicians made up as moralists."
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