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Partly for this reason, EU enlargement is superior--at least for financial markets--to political unification, which encourages vested interests to lobby at the central level.
Both took comfort from the political cover provided by the European unification effort – an historic initiative aimed at securing the continent’s well-being through closer economic and political integration on the basis of credible rules and effective institutions.
True European unification seemed to be in the making.
No matter how strong the EU’s external borders are – though, of course, better monitoring and patrolling measures are needed – the flow of migrants will continue to overwhelm their capacity, endangering the openness that is so fundamental to European unification, beginning with the Schengen acquis, which guarantees freedom of movement, without border controls, among 26 European countries.
Schroeder came to power seven years ago representing a new generation whose formative experience was not the Cold War, European integration, and transatlantic friendship, but German unification and the restoration of national sovereignty.
So now it faces a stark choice: a leap forward toward unification or inevitable disintegration.
Some of these warnings were inspired by deep-seated doubts about European monetary unification.
But they assumed that, over time, monetary unification would create momentum for national reforms, further economic integration, and some form of political unification.
In this scenario, the task of bolstering social security would be completed with the unification of pension funds; the surge of contributions following the pickup in employment; and the return to formal employment of workers banished into informality by the brutal deregulation of the labor market during the dark years of the recent past.
The second is that it is undergoing a political unification, i.e., forming into something like the United States of Europe.
Therefore, while monetary and, in part, political unification is progressing on the European level, regionalism, federalist, and separatist impulses survive and prosper.
And they question the sustainability of economic and fiscal unification – allowing transfers to the weaker countries – in the absence of political unification involving loss of sovereignty.
At the same time, Europe’s former powers are evidently struggling with China’s new international primacy, which can be addressed only through greater European unification – a goal for which they currently show little appetite.
But as economic unification narrowed each country’s room for maneuver, it was hoped, national action would be exercised less frequently.
Only further unification, underpinned by growth-oriented policies in the struggling countries, can reverse this trend.
Here the AU should look to Europe, which began its process of unification with a mere six highly committed members.
The new initiative calls for all member states to harmonize their economic, fiscal, and monetary policies completely, beginning with currency convertibility and followed by exchange-rate unification and, finally, a common currency.
Inviting New Members: The venue of the Prague summit--the capital of one of NATO's most recent member states--is a powerful symbol of the Alliance's success in advancing Europe's unification.
But, to make the eurozone work, monetary unification should extend to the fiscal and financial fields, thereby creating an integrated economic union.
Kohl accomplished two great economic/political deeds: unification and European Union.
The same can be said of unification.
If not for the special Kohl/Gorbachev relationship, unification might not have happened; we could have had uprisings and repressions, as in the 1950s.
The words epluribus unum need not be included on euro notes and coins to recognize that the principle for which they stand – the political unification of Europe, no less than that of the US – is indispensable to the euro’s survival.
Dubious harmonization and unification is in the pipeline in another area as well: macroeconomic performance.
Ultimately, Abdulaziz bin Saud’s unification of the Kingdom in the late 1920’s could even be reversed, making the last eight decades an anomaly in the Arabian Peninsula’s long history of fragmentation.
Germany recognized that it could be reunified only in the context of greater European unification, and it was willing to pay the price.
As integration has turned into disintegration, the role of the European political establishment has also reversed, from spearheading further unification to defending the status quo.
This might be Europe’s last chance to finish the project of unification.
Indeed, more than 20 years on, Western Germans still see no end in sight for the bills from German unification.
All of this recalls some powerful arguments that were made in the nineteenth century about national integration and unification.
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