Una risposta liberale al nazionalismo / Free Markets - Free Nations. A Liberal Answer to Nationalism

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Two opposing tendencies are at work on the global scene today. On the one hand, we see both political and, even more so, economic internationalisation; on the other, we witness the rebirth of often virulent nationalisms, which are exploding chiefly in the European countries of the former Soviet bloc that are grappling with the problems of modernisation and opening out to the world. Liberalism must come up with a consistent answer to this, a problem upon which Europe's very future depends. The Friedrich Naumann Stiftung invited a group of liberal intellectuals from all over the world to discuss these issue at Sintra in Portugal. The result of their efforts was the statement presented here. The document strongly reaffirms the internationalist and universalist values of liberalism, rejecting all forms of nationalism and centralism. It also reaffirms the separateness of the liberal view of the state from socialist (socialdemocratic included) and conservative views.