{"id":1225,"date":"2011-05-24T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2011-05-24T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:18:57","slug":"geneva-on-the-rhine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/geneva-on-the-rhine\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva on the Rhine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/contributor\/845\" target=\"_blank\">Moisi, Dominique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of Germany\u2019s reunification, French magazines were full of caricatures of Chancellor Helmut Kohl wearing the traditional pointed Prussian helmet. The new Germany was perceived as a threat to the European balance. Germany was simply \u201ctoo much\u201d again.<\/p>\n<p>German geopolitical ambitions, it was believed, would invariably seek greater proportionality with the size of the country\u2019s population and the dynamism of its economy. It was only a matter of time, people thought, before the \u201cGerman Question\u201d would return to haunt Europe, as it did between 1871 and 1945.<\/p>\n<p>To a large extent, Helmut Kohl held up the same picture, which he used to persuade his European counterparts that they should rush to bind Germany to a more integrated Europe. Indeed, this reasoning led to the creation of the euro. For the sake of its European vocation, Germany proclaimed itself ready to abandon its cherished deutschmark, the currency that had accompanied and symbolized its spectacular economic rebirth and post-war social stability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>Project Syndicate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/moisi66\/English\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moisi, Dominique. Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of Germany\u2019s reunification, French magazines were full of caricatures of Chancellor Helmut Kohl wearing the traditional pointed Prussian helmet. The new Germany was perceived as a threat to the European balance. Germany was simply \u201ctoo much\u201d again. German geopolitical ambitions, it was believed, would invariably seek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-37","tag-26","tag-24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}