ABSTRACT
A good example of the dangers that accompany liberalization of the market is the abandonment of border controls between the countries concerned.1 The abandonment or relaxation of the work of frontier police and customs officials is a form of what we have described as negative integration. National decision-making powers are limited without this being compensated for at Community level with some form of positive integration. The potential result is that the national judicial system, a central pillar of the national civilizations, could come under threat and the level of civilization, particularly where this is relatively ‘high’, would find itself heading in a downward direction.2
