Liberte World

The two sides of the ACTA dispute are represented by values that have never before been confronted in such a direct manner. Firstly, we deal with a crucial element of individual freedom, namely: respecting the inviolability of individual’s personal/intimate life. Secondly, we have the property right and its more abstract form of intellectual property and [...]

Activities of the Palikot’s Movement (Ruch Palikota – RP) turned out to be the greatest, but predictable disappointment in politics (from the point of view of the liberal voter) of the last few days of the year. When the position of the group in the pre election polls become strong and especially since entering the [...]

Around what values did liberal parties organize in Europe and historical reasons of institutionalized weaknesses of liberalism in Poland.

It seems that the political scene of  Poland has gone through two decades of which the latter is still in progress. The first phase was characterized by a major instability of political parties which were [...]

Liberals are often compelled to stress that the state is not the only body able to limit the freedom of an individual. Liberalism originally developed to restrict the arbitrariness of state authorities and aimed to prevent the private sphere of life from the influence of interventionist bureaucrats. However, having built the constitutional system of the [...]

Ralf Dahrendorf was a liberal thinker for whom the conflicts procedeeing in various ways in the highly complicated structure of the society seem to be a permanent phenomenon. Modern liberalism, offering freedom of three kinds, composed his response, a difficult response for darious needs and contradictory interests. The goal of liberalism was apparently impossible ereconciliation [...]

Yesterday’s appointment of the President of the European Council and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy was truly disappointing. Worse than that – it is a genuine manifestation of “Euro-bureaucracy” in its worst form. Another backstage compromise, another decision that has nothing to do with courage and ambitious [...]

The 20th anniversary of the events from 1989 is currently being celebrated. Poland regained its independence, and the most tangible proof of that was the implementation of democracy. The right to free election, which the Polish nation was deprived of almost all its history, identifies with freedom. A free man is one who can cast [...]