1. * Professor of European Economic Law, European University Institute, Florence.
2. 1Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungof 31 May 2003 (Translation by Iain Fraser). See the concluding sentence of Tony Judt'sPostwar. A History of Europe Since 1945(Penguin, 2005) at 831; it is more than deplorable that 'the bitter experiences' fail to mention the Holocaust.
3. 2The 'bitter experiences' were taken from the Preamble of the Polish constitution which reads: 'Mindful of the bitter experiences of the times when fundamental freedoms and human rights were violated in our Homeland .'
4. 3For a detailed discussion cf. Donatella della Porta and Manuela Caiani, 'Quale Europa? Europeizzazione, identita e conflitti', (typescript Florence 2005, on file with the author).
5. 4Friedrich A. von Hayek,The Road to Serfdom(University of Chicago, 1944).