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.
Friday, 27 March 2009
"The era of small nation states has passed"
My latest blogpost: "The era of small nation states has passed"Tweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 13:18
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Ein volk, ein... . Damn! Godwin's law again.
No doubt the countries of Louis XIV and Bismarck are united in that ambition. (No mention from me of Napoleon or Hitler. Oops!)
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?
What does Godwin's law say about The Schlieffen Plan, which was hatched after Bismarck was off the scene again?
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