Germany Integrating with Europ

One of the characteristics of German nation building throughout the modern era is that political structures often followed the creation of economic institutions. It was easier at crucial points to develop authorities for economic exchange among the German subdivisions than to unite them politically.

The origins of the European idea and of the European unity movement lie further back, and the earlier plans for some form of political, economic or cultural European unity where of course directed towards the whole of Europe – irrespective of the fact that in the past there has always been disagreement how Europe should be defined in the geographical political or cultural sense.

Chancellor of the Federal Republic, Adenauer fought for the European integration process in order to release the Federal Republic from the occupation statue and lead it back to an equal position among the Western European states.

His European policy was an instrument to regain intern

France unwillingness against Germany was understandable because these two states have been strong enemies through the history. Situation after the First and the Second World War, where Germany was on losers and France on winners’ side, was specially complicated. I would call it more like formally winners’ side, because everybody who are in the war, are losers. Although France was a winner, their economic situation was quite similar to Germany and they really had to work for building it up again.

The integration of Germany into the West was an act of preventive diplomacy. Western Allies couldn’t allow West Germany and Western Europe from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.

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