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But this increased cooperation does mean that France and America are at least willing to talk about the structures of security Europe needs in the wake of the continent's reunification.
Yemen emerged in 1990 from the reunification of South Yemen and North Yemen, which fought bitter wars in 1972 and 1979.
Interest rates were too low in Southern Europe, where governments and households binged on cheap loans, and arguably too high in Germany, which was already held back by the economic burden of reunification.
After all, the eurozone crisis was rooted in the emergence of imbalances generated by the euro’s introduction and, to a lesser extent, German reunification.
Likewise, the unemployment rate has fallen throughout the crisis, reaching 5.2%, the lowest level since reunification.
If they back Tung unconditionally for the rest of his term, they can look forward to the collapse of their long-term strategy to re-absorb Taiwan, for the alternative to peaceful reunification with Taiwan is coercion.
From ping-pong diplomacy with China to the united German Olympic team that competed in 1990 before actual reunification, sport has prefigured political developments, and politicians everywhere have seized on the importance of the World Cup.
As the Nobel laureate James Heckman points out in his recent analysis of the poor performance of the German economy after reunification, new opportunities in technology and trade have raised the cost of preserving the status quo.
At long last, they say, German leaders can use the unrestricted sovereignty Germany acquired with reunification in 1990.
After all, Germany's traditional low-key foreign policy made the country an anchor of NATO and helped secure reunification.
In a hypothetical European fiscal union, there would certainly be transfers from Germany to the periphery in 2011, but a properly designed setup would have ensured flows to Germany in the 1990’s, as it struggled to cope with the costs of reunification with East Germany.
For the US, the primary objective is to maintain the status quo, by dissuading Taiwan from actively seeking independence and discouraging China from forcing Taiwan into a speedy reunification.
Only with Mikhail Gorbachev and his policies of perestroika and glasnost did reunification become a real possibility.
At the same time, Germany, suffering from the after-effects of reunification, had to tighten its belt.
Germany was uncompetitive when it entered the eurozone, owing to excessive wage and price increases following the country’s reunification – a problem that has since been overcome by structural reforms that the country undertook within the single currency.
Cypriot presidential elections this month may give a second term to Tasos Papadopoulos, the Greek Cypriot leader who led the “No” campaign in the 2004 reunification referendum.
Moreover, there seems little doubt that the final, rejected version of the UN’s 2003-04 reunification plan will have to be changed, although earlier versions might contain ideas worth re-visiting.
The South Korean authorities are rightly proud of the initiative, which they view as an investment in future reunification with the North.
Before its reunification with mainland China, many people expected the former British colony to grab headlines as Beijing progressively stripped its freedoms.
Finally, Hong Kong represents a test of the "one country, two systems" model proclaimed in 1997, and thus of the feasibility of China's applying the same scheme to its reunification plans for Taiwan.
The prevailing attitude in Taiwan toward reunification is highly skeptical; enactment of strict security laws in Hong Kong will hardly be seen as reassuring.
It has existed since the 1980s, falling only during reunification, when intensive construction investment in the former East Germany more than absorbed the country’s savings.
Over the long-term, however, accommodation will be difficult on issues like Taiwan, Korean reunification, and the future of the US alliance structure in Asia.
The late editor of the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Rudolf Augstein, who never liked former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, titled his commentary about German reunification “Congratulations, Chancellor!”
We also must expand our capacity to host refugees through resettlement and other legal pathways – such as student, work, and family reunification visas.
The weaker countries enjoyed real-estate, consumption, and investment booms, while Germany, weighed down by the fiscal burden of reunification, had to adopt austerity and implement structural reforms.
The early 1990s witnessed the reunification of Germany, and the elimination of even moderate inflation risks.
With the great tasks of reunification and European integration behind it, future German governments are increasingly likely to be forced to answer, "Not much."
And what happens in 2009 may jeopardize some of the positive results of 1989, including the peaceful reunification of Europe and the triumph of democratic principles over nationalist, if not xenophobic, tendencies.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, reunification, and a period of high unemployment and seemingly endless reforms, Germans had experienced quite enough excitement.
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