... 's history. Germany, in fact, could only come into existence through federalism. This is true also for the united Germany of our days. When the wall crumbled in 1989 Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl first promised further coexistence of two German states in "confederate structures" − 7 whatever they might have been. Later on, in the spring of 1990 he promised the world that Germany ... 's extraordinary international situation as an important reason for its endeavors with regard to an European Constitution: It has become kind of a common political wisdom (from Adenauer to Brandt/Schmidt to Kohl...

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... long Cold War. When this happened, the whole country basically kept the West German political and economic system, instead of using a combination of the two Eastern and Western regions. Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor preferred this approach, calling it a "fast track" to unification. And so with that, the country resumed using West Germany's Basic Law as a form of a constitution. "The ... ...

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