Cosmopolitan rule of law norm in the context of European Union federalization – its assessment and significance for competitiveness Cover Image

Kosmopolityczna norma praworządności w kontekście federalizacji Unii Europejskiej – jej ocena i znaczenie dla konkurencyjności
Cosmopolitan rule of law norm in the context of European Union federalization – its assessment and significance for competitiveness

Author(s): Waldemar Świątkowski
Subject(s): EU-Legislation
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: cosmopolitism; federation; rule of law; competition; free trade;

Summary/Abstract: The article shows firstly the analytical relationship between the German – based on theKant’s philosophy of law – federal order and its trial to be extended to the dimension of Europeancomplexity. Next, the article aims at answering the following questions: Is Kant’s (cosmopolitan)rule of law, which is promoted within the frames of European federal thought, more a friend or foeto entrepreneurship? In other words, does this norm not recode the classical free trade rule in thedirection of deontological inclusiveness of a market? Does linking EU funds or state’s subventionsfor companies with cosmopolitan rule of law norm makes that the return to a flexible free tradeattitude will be legally restricted, or even impossible? Or more, is the rule of cosmopolitan(deontological) law economically beneficial to the same extent either to entities with weaker capitalor rising economies and to companies with powerful capital and developed economies?

  • Issue Year: 35/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 19-31
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish