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What Europe’s devotion to humanism does mean, however, is a determination, no matter the circumstances, to stand firm and not abandon the fundamentals of European civilization and European unification.
Europe and Asia’s Arms RaceWhen European unification was launched, it was thought that “ever closer union” would establish a community that would protect Europeans from political blackmail.
Considering all of the challenges and opportunities that the divided peninsula faces – and will continue to confront in the coming years – unification remains an important goal that we must continue to pursue.
Korea’s road to unification will undoubtedly be difficult, and will require the international community’s support.
What is clear is that more depends on the future of Europe than even the most vociferous advocates of European unification had previously believed.
Only through unification, Nietzsche argued, could continental Europe have a strong voice in world affairs, which at that time meant being on an equal footing with the British and Russian empires in their strategic “great game,” the winner of which would control Afghanistan and northern India.
Nietzsche thought hard about how his new politics might come about, speculating that a growing threat from Russia could spur unification.
With Nietzche’s ideas in mind, British voters might recognize that the real question they must answer on June 23 is whether to endorse petty and divisive power politics or the great and noble politics of unification.
Germany experienced a consumption and construction boom after unification, with full employment and a current-account deficit.
Exports initially did not constitute a path to recovery because the deutsche mark was overvalued, and some manufacturing capacity had been lost during the unification boom.
Specifically, Germany, Europe’s greatest economic power, and France, the intellectual progenitor of European unification, should announce their simultaneous exit from the euro and re-adoption of the Deutsche Mark and the franc.
It is no coincidence that historical episodes of unification of countries coincided with situations in which external threats or a common enemy created large benefits from centralizing defense and foreign policy.
It is only a few years ago that Mikhail Gorbachev convinced himself and his Kremlin colleagues that they had to accommodate Bonn over unification because Germany would be the main actor on the continental European scene.
In 1990, with unification, the irrepressible desire of East Germans to be incorporated into the Federal republic stemmed from their determination to obtain what their relatives in the West had acquired long before -- not just democracy but material well-being as well.
Thus the trauma of German history combines with the almost natural human aversion to change In retrospect, unification could have provided the unique opportunity not just to remove the bankrupt structures of the communist East but also to overhaul the creaking system of the West.
The one thousand billion Deutschmarks shifted East since unification might otherwise have been spent propping up the sagging German welfare state, delaying the moment of truth even longer.
Instead, the vocation of Europe in the course of the twenty-first century should be to become the lever of step-by-step inter-continental convergence and unification.
The major difference now is that the European unification process rules out war – even economic war – between the two countries.
But UK support had a catch: British leaders, reluctant to accept the EU’s long-stated goal of an “ever-closer union” – which implies political unification and shared national and federal sovereignty – made no secret of their desire to use the widening of EU membership to prevent the deepening of European integration.
Moving toward political unification would alter the incentives of policymakers in Brussels and provide the EU with increased legitimacy.
Today, with risks to the survival of both the eurozone (starting with Greece) and the EU itself (starting with Brexit), it will take enlightened European leaders to sustain the trend toward deeper unification.
Like it or not, the eurozone will have to act as the EU’s avant-garde, because the EU as a whole, with its 27 member states, will be neither willing nor able to accelerate political unification.
Europe's Secular MissionEconomics and politics have been uneasy allies in the process of European unification.
Of course, the economic prosperity that European unification has delivered undoubtedly lures new members, but the EU's attraction extends far beyond pocketbook issues.
So the armed forces found themselves in a double bind: the Cold War's end prompted calls for a peace dividend and for unification to be funded.
But with Europe enjoying an unprecedented level of economic prosperity as a result of the EU’s dramatic accomplishments during its first 50 years, further political unification clearly can wait.
Ireland, one of the countries that benefited the most in material terms from the idea of European unification, has rejected this idea.
In closing the interview, he asserts that the expansion of his television channels abroad will be pivotal to the unification of Europe.
For decades, however, Europeans have been more concerned with unification and constitutional arrangements than with traditional diplomacy.
Europe’s monetary unification of the 1990’s was supposed to be accompanied by fiscal convergence and harmonization.
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