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...Germany is bankrupt. Most of its 8,000 decrepit enterprises are on the verge of failure, and unemployment is heading toward 2 million out of a work force of 8.9 million. Since economic and monetary union in July, the East's economy has been running mainly on subsidies from Bonn...
...recent steps highlight the course Genscher is charting. First, to reassure the Soviets and the world that it truly disdains the use of force, Bonn agreed to reduce the combined German armed forces from 590,000 to 370,000 over the next four years. Second, at the U.N. last week, Genscher set out his hopes for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He predicted that the CSCE would soon create new institutions, including "regular meetings of heads of state and government, a center for conflict prevention and a secretariat." Together, he said, they would provide...
...Bonn's partners in the E.C. and NATO, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is the head of Britain's bothered-about-Germany group, which includes politicians like former Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley and a tabloid- fed, anti-German segment of the public. "Their specific fears are hard to pin down," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a specialist on Germany at Southampton University. "It's not about Germans pulling on their jackboots and marching into Poland. It's fear about a tendency toward neutralism, and that with its enormous economic power, Germany will assert itself and be less willing to defer...
Outside Britain there is still some worry about German ambitions. Poland and Czechoslovakia are anxious; France, the Netherlands and others are uneasy. The more realistic concern is that Bonn's agenda may be so filled with intra- German and East European issues that Germany will lose some of its eagerness for economic and political integration in the E.C. Jacques Delors, the Community's chief executive, is challenging Germany to prove that it is still determined to go forward. "Are the Germans truly interested in economic and monetary union?" he asked last week. "We need clear, unambiguous political commitments." The time...
...imminent shift of the national capital from Bonn in the West to Berlin in the East only underscores the insecurity that many felt when Germany signed a non-aggression accord with the Soviet Union this summer. To these people, the best way to deal with Germany is to integrate it into the rest of the continent as rapidly and in as many ways as possible...