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- Title
Von der deutschen zur europäischen Frage.
- Authors
Winkler, Heinrich August
- Abstract
For almost two hundred years, from the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 to the reunification of Germany, Europe repeatedly had to deal with the 'German Question'. It was only solved by the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990. Germany was reunified within the borders of 1945 'in peace and freedom'; its membership in NATO answered the German Question regarding European security. In the mean time, however, there is talk of a 'New German Question', which supposedly results from the alleged hegemonic position of the Federal Republic within the European Union. Thus, the German Question has actually re-emerged in a new format - or is it not rather the European Question which is still open to the same extent as it was in 1991 at the conclusion of the Maastricht Treaty?
- Subjects
EUROPE; GERMANY; GERMAN reunification question (1949-1990); GERMAN Unification, 1990; EUROPEAN Union; HISTORY of the European Union; HEGEMONY; EUROPEAN history; TWENTIETH century; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2015, Vol 63, Issue 4, p473
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2015-0030