Planning: Twilight or Renaissance (in Connection with the Integration Processes)

Neither twilight nor renaissance: the author argues, that the failure of the central-directive command planning of the Soviet type cannot overshadow thebenefits or sometimes even necessity of development planning. Survival and/or continuity of planning experience, while getting rid of counterpositionplanning versus market, is becoming particularly valid vis a vis contemporary challenges which national and international comunities are facing nowadays. The author is referring to such questions as the distant time-horizons ina lot of activities, both micro -and macroeconomic, as well as those havingglobal dimensions; to the badly needed planning in the R&D sphere; to the corporate planning; to the activities in the natural environment conservation andpreservation etc. In many cases the analysis is illustrated by the problems andpractises of the European Union.