Iustitia Croatia

Daniel Hinšt, Vice President of Iustitia, presented our libertarian think-tank on the Think Tank Leadership Training, as well as Atlas Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, organized by Atlas Economic Research Foundation in November 2011 in New York City. We are bringing the main policy highlight of this big event organized in Broadway’s Crowne Plaza Times Square, which gathered libertarian and classical liberal individuals and organization from all around the world. Libertarian Club (LIBEK), Iustitia’s partner organization, also participated in this event, being represented by Miloš Nikolić and Peter Čekerevac.

Association for Promotion of Individual Liberty 'Iustitia' has organised, in collaboration with the Centre for Public Policy and Economic Analysis (www.cea-policy.hr) a round table titled "Where to Save Public Money - A Smaller Budget As a Prerequisite For Tax Reform and Debt Reduction" on Friday, October 28th 2011 at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law.

On Friday, September 9th 2011, Svetilnik Association organized a lecture on "Efficiency of Slovenian courts" in Maribor. The keynote speaker of the evening was Dr. Katarina Zajc, professor at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and member of the State Judicial Council of the Republic of Slovenia, and present at this event were four Iustitia members.

Last Saturday, July 2nd 2011, the first of hopefully many debates between members of the Iustitia Association was held. The members addressed one of the crucial topics for regular operation of the association – NGO funding using public resources. In an exhaustive four-hour debate, the members also exchanged views and opinions on the cooperation with the “Law Centre of Primorje” from Koper, Slovenia on the upcoming 'Join the EU' project, and suggested topics for future, similar debates.

Answering the question 'As an association, do we need to use the money from public resources or not, and why?’ members sought to find general principles, consistent with the Statute and the Program Charter of Iustitia, applicable to the funding of the entire NGO sector.

The Road to Serfdom is a book written by the Austrian-born economist, philosopher and Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek between 1940 and 1943. In his book, the author criticizes collectivism and warns of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning, arguing that the abandonment of individualism, liberalism and freedom gradually leads to totalitarian oppression and serfdom of the individual. Significantly, Hayek then challenged the general view among British academics that fascism was a capitalist reaction against socialism, instead taking a stance that both systems have common roots in central economic planning and the power of the state over the individual.

Here you can find an illustrated version focusing on main points of the book, published in Look magazine in the early 1950s.