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Article: Ten for Germany. (reasons for reunification) (editorial)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- April 2, 1990
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The reunification of Germany means a new Europe, but the left is absent from the discussion of its contours. Muted voices are heard on the German left - from Gunter Grass, the I.G. Metall metal workers' union, or the Social Democratic leader HansJochen Vogel - about the exact form of the Anschluss, but these are like corks bobbing on a tidal wave. Here are ten conditions that the new Germany could fulfill to contribute to the security, well-being, progress and political pluralism of the rest of Europe, and the world.
One. Germany should follow Japan's example and insert into a new Constitution a clause renouncing forever the use of war as a means of settling ...