Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At E.C. headquarters in Brussels and in capitals around the Continent there is some apprehension that after unification, Germany -- which may have to provide even more than the 28% of the E.C. budget it contributes now -- will grow tired of being the "paymaster of Europe." Moreover, Germany might concentrate on...
The Workers World Party (WWP), for example, now finds itself in the highly unpopular position of opposing reform and democratization on the continent.
The agreement between the Soviet Union and the U.S. that will allow 30,000 more American troops than Soviet ones to be stationed in Europe was announced last week in what has become standard fashion in the fast-moving Gorbachev era: a casual aside. During a discussion about German unification...
But that was the postwar world; this is the post-cold war world, and things are dizzyingly different. Europe has been transformed by the retreat of Soviet imperial power, the collapse of Communist governments in the center of the Continent and the evaporation of the Warsaw Pact. The blinding pace...
Many Europeans are apprehensive about reassembling a Germany of 77 million people in the center of the Continent. The Soviets, who estimate they lost 26 million people in their Great Patriotic War against the Nazis, have been the most vehement. If they were able, the Soviets would prevent unification altogether...