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Jahrbuch ORDO, Band 62, 2011. Prof. Dr. Alfred Schüller war bis zur Emeritierung in 2005 Lehrstuhlinhaber und Geschäftsführender Direktor der Forschungsstelle zum Vergleich wirtschaftlicher Lenkungssysteme an der Philipps-Universität Marburg.
    2 Legendär ist die Verordnung (EWG) Nr. 1677/88 (Gurkenverordnung), nach der die Krümmung bei Gurken der Handelsklasse ‚Extra’ auf 10 cm Länge 10 mm nicht überschreiten durfte. Sie wurde 2009 wieder außer Kraft gesetzt.
    3 Werner Plumpe, Wirtschaftskrisen – Geschichte und Gegenwart, Seite 103f.
    4 Die jährliche Defizitquote (Haushaltsdefizit in Relation zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt / BIP) der einzelnen Mitgliedsstaaten der Eurozone sollte 3 % nicht übersteigen. Die Schuldenstandsquote (die zusammengefassten Staatsschulden in Relation zum BIP) der Länder sollte maximal 60 % erreichen.

Maruschzik: The end of the European national states
     
    With the Stability Pact the eurozone takes the second decisive step towards a centralized European unity state. Again, the future of the European economy builds on promises. Like the federal government of Helmut Kohl, the government of Angela Merkel counts on an obviously illusory hope that the stability policy about which the heads of the governments agreed will prevail in the countries of the eurozone in the long run. But this time the European establishment goes the whole hog: With the “European Stability Mechanism” (ESM) the countries of the eurozone shall irrevocably abandon a great deal of their fiscal sovereignty to Bruxelles. “The ESM Treaty is a mockery and derision as far as sanity and reason but also as far as European juridical traditions are concerned. With this ESM Treaty, a small group of governments revolt against their own people,” says Rolf von Hohenhau, president of the Taxpayers Association of Europe. 1
     
    “The Greek economic infrastructure in no way is comparable with ours, and the interlacing of the Greek foreign trade with trade flows in the eurozone is very narrow.“ No, this is not a quote by a euro castigator but by Eurogroup chaiman Jean-Claude Juncker. And he said this at the end of February 2012. 2 Are the economic infrastructures of the other European countries comparable with each other? Why do we have to try to make them comparable by hook or by crook or by force?
     
    Additionally, Juncker claims to appoint a “EU commissioner charged with the task of building up the structure of the Greek economy” and to “think and think ahead” Greece’s economic policy. In other words, a bureaucrat from Bruxelles shall replace the individual and entrepreneurial initiatives of the Greeks. What will happen to the other countries of Southern Europe should their citizens vote out the “stability policy” of their current governments in future elections? Will EU commissioners take over the economic policy of all those countries? Even against the citizens will? Former ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet makes no secret of his thoughts: In extreme cases the EU countries shall declare countries bankrupt and take over their fiscal policy.
     
    No doubt where the journey goes. Among others, José Manuel Barroso as president of the EU commission, France’s new president Francois Hollande, Italy’s prime minister Mario Monti or monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn call for merging the debts of the separate governments of the eurozone through Eurobonds. In the eyes of France’s new prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, the ECB shall finance the crisis-hit countries directly, thus to unite Europe’s finance in one policy.
     
    A paradigm shift is taking place. The self-responsibility–the sovereignty–of the European countries is being abolished step by step. “European countries will become like once independent American states, subservient to central power that rules from afar,” Paul Craig Roberts writes. Key representatives of this central power are not elected directly by the peoples of the EU. For