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With the cold war over, it hardly seems time to start building an all-new army in Europe. Yet France and Germany are doing just that. President Francois Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week proposed the creation of an all-European army, starting with a small Franco-German brigade that is already in existence and eventually comprising troops from all the nine nations in the Western European Union. Staunch Atlanticists initially opposed the idea: British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd called it an unnecessary "duplication" of NATO. But others, including the U.S. -- which is not a member...
Bonn's reaction has not helped much. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats seized on the attacks to push for a constitutional amendment curbing Germany's liberal provisions for asylum. But some critics say that by harping on the constitution instead of cracking down on the attacks, the CDU has encouraged the skinheads. Others complain that the CDU's arguments implicitly blame the victims by suggesting more foreigners mean more violence. However deserved the criticism was, the debate was not making Germany safer for foreigners...
...Yugoslavia's strife, the E.C. has been haunted by a feeling of deja vu. More than a century ago, Otto von Bismarck gazed on another Balkan crisis -- the collapse of the empire of Ottoman Turkey -- and shrank from getting militarily involved. In the Iron Chancellor's view, Germany had no interests there that "would be worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer." Though Serbian nationalism went on to ignite the First World War, the E.C. last week seemed to feel much as Bismarck had. At an emergency session in the Hague, the Community's foreign ministers rejected...
...last month's London summit of the Group of Seven leading industrial powers. The Germans, whose $35 billion in commitments to Moscow surpasses all other sources of Soviet aid put together, were horrified by the crisis that had threatened to blow up in their faces. An unusually blunt Chancellor Helmut Kohl told his allies, "The dumbest possible policy now would be for us to sit back as international onlookers and say, 'So, what are they doing in Moscow...
...scandal transfixed Britain throughout the week. In a bruising dustup in Parliament, Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labour Party, called Major "utterly negligent" for failing to take action against B.C.C.I. while serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 1990. Replied an ashen-faced Major, who said he had learned of the full extent of the bank fraud only on June 28: "If you are saying I am a liar, you had better say so bluntly." Robin Leigh-Pemberton, governor of the Bank of England, later affirmed that Major first received details of the scandal in late June...