Friday 27 March 2009

"The era of small nation states has passed"

This questionable propostion was put forward by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in an EU-sponsored debate entitled Visions For Europe.

H/t Denis Cooper.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ein volk, ein... . Damn! Godwin's law again.

Anonymous said...

No doubt the countries of Louis XIV and Bismarck are united in that ambition. (No mention from me of Napoleon or Hitler. Oops!)

Lola said...

Well, quelle surprise, non. Frank-Walter old son the Belgian plain is that way. But just don't think about eh? Your track record with small inoffensive little sovereign states is not good, now is it?

Mark Wadsworth said...

What does Godwin's law say about The Schlieffen Plan, which was hatched after Bismarck was off the scene again?