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This is not exactly what the neighbors had in mind. The very idea of NATO, the E.C. and other postwar institutions has been to lock Germany into a European structure, not the other way around. Last December's E.C. summit in the Dutch city of Maastricht was supposed to nail down the roof of a house that would contain and control Germany as a cooperative, pacific and co-equal member of the European family. But in the aftermath of Maastricht, Germany has broken ranks on issues large and small, upsetting and sometimes frightening its allies...
...Since Maastricht there has been a growing sense of irritation among Germany's neighbors on a variety of issues. The ink on the Maastricht agreement was hardly dry before Bonn pressured -- some say bullied -- the rest of the E.C. into recognizing the breakaway Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia. Most of the 12 preferred to wait to give E.C. negotiators a chance to implement a cease-fire, but Germany forced a decision by threatening to go it alone. Then, just before Christmas, the Bundesbank suddenly raised its interest rates, compelling most of the rest of Western Europe to follow...
...Institutional Change in Europe: Maastricht and Beyond"--Robert Keohane, professor and chairman of Government Dept. Cabot Room, Center for European Studies at 8 p.m. Friday...
...anti-immigrant Vlaams Blok party increased its representation from two to 12 seats in November's parliamentary elections. Sweden, long considered the & socialist's dream of the earthly paradise, gave its Social Democrats their worst electoral defeat in 60 years in 1991. The European Community warned at its Maastricht summit in December "that manifestations of racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe...
Only a week after the Maastricht summit, hailed as a major step toward E.C. unity, the Twelve found themselves deeply divided over whether to recognize the independence of the breakaway republics of Slovenia and Croatia in the face of continuing attacks by the Serb-dominated national army. On the eve of an E.C. foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels, the Germans were in a distinct minority in their push for recognition -- a move they said would deter further Serbian assaults. By the next day, in an unexpected show of diplomatic muscle, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had cajoled and bullied...