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So the world needs, in its regions, to facilitate integration on the basis of a general economic democratization: currency compatibility, free trade, shared legal rules and most of all a common will to fix the rules of the game according to a region’s entire interests.
Only such equal cooperation can secure the solid political basis for integration.
Indeed, it would be naive not to ask whether retaining a member that is challenging the very principle of European integration would really be in the EU’s best interests.
By intensifying doubts about European integration, Brexit would further reduce the willingness of EU members to cooperate, resulting in the deterioration of both their security and their remaining international influence.
The problems we are facing did not arise because of European integration.
The rationale for integration is that collective action is far more effective than unilateral efforts.
Given this, campaigns for European integration should not be limited to a rote affirmation of the benefits the EU has brought to its members, much less to efforts to appease Euroskeptics.
China’s management of food and product safety issues will have a long-term impact on trade relations, the sustainability of China’s growth strategy, and its further integration into the global trading system.
China’s continued economic growth and integration into the global economy gives America even greater opportunities to grow and succeed.
The biggest risk to both US and Chinese prosperity is that China’s growth stalls, or that it pulls back from further global integration and reforms too slowly.
Two key elements of European integration – the euro and border-free travel within the Schengen Area – were placed under severe strain.
The value added from European integration now extends beyond EU membership to include participation in sub-groups like the eurozone or the Schengen Area that have a more direct and tangible impact on daily life and key policy choices.
Europe, An Engine of PeaceCritics of European monetary integration often point out that, in the absence of political union, monetary union is doomed to fail.
European economic integration – in all its aspects – reflects the desire to integrate Europe politically, which, at least in my view, implies that European economic and monetary integration is irreversible.
This has been true from the outset of the European integration process in 1952, when six countries established the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
This drive for peace remained, quietly, the key motivation behind further steps toward Europe’s economic integration, which was regarded as the vehicle for achieving political integration.
Later that year, Robert Schumann – the French foreign minister at the time and a founding father of European integration – explicitly identified the ECSC with the drive for peace.
In particular, Germany under Chancellor Helmut Kohl often linked monetary integration with the objective of political union.
For this reason, I do not agree with those who argue that Germany’s support for European monetary integration was the price it paid for Europe’s acceptance of German reunification.
On the contrary, the historical record shows that Germany made the case for a parallel drive to monetary and political integration well before the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Of course, there are other motives behind support for economic integration.
But peace was the principal driving force in the minds of people like Schumann and Jean Monnet at the beginning of the European integration process, as it was for Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing when they laid the foundations of the single currency and today’s European Central Bank.
For half a century, the process of European integration proceeded – sometimes with setbacks, sometimes with giant steps forward – joining formerly separate markets by creating very close trade relations.
What strikes me as dangerous is that the issue of peace – the motor that has driven European integration from the start – rarely comes up in the debate about what to do in the wake of these events.
For me, Europe’s integration of Muslim Turkey into its political union is the same sort of question of peace that Schumann and Monnet successfully confronted.
Thus, European integration had to be created by real policies and institutions, not by decree.
They pushed forward the idea of monetary integration, which came to fruition a generation later.
Again, it was Poland that paved the way, reminding the old member states from the outset of the accession process that it was not an outsider or a poor relative in need of charity, but rather a source of inspiration in the European integration process, its impact delayed only by World War II and its aftermath.
Firmly anchored in the community of Western democracies, its role transcends the technical aspects of the European integration process, for it bears the responsibility of ensuring that no new barrier excludes our Eastern neighbors from taking part in this process.
With the light that had been guiding reform and integration efforts now extinguished, nationalism in the region predictably started to rise again.
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