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...conflict and war where boundaries and frontiers expanded and receded at a terrible cost to millions of its citizens. Rivalries between Nations and power blocks constantly erupted. It was in the aftermath of the massive death toll and destruction of the second World War that French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made the proposal in 1950 which would later lead to the establishment of the European Union. His first objective was to prevent further wars by building structures through which points of disagreement could be resolved peacefully. Initially this concept must have seemed unbearably naive after such bloody battles, but somehow...
...evolution of the European ideal has been one of slow incremental change. This has been a necessary approach in respecting diversity while at the same time maintaining a set of agreed principles to deal with the issues of the day. As Schuman himself said, “Europe will not be made at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements?...
...Common Currency is a column on global economics by Michael Schuman that appears weekly on TIME.com...
...obviously painful," he says of his ban from the mainland. "As a Chinese citizen, I'm not allowed back to my own country even though I'm welcome in every other country in the world." In 2000, Lee became the first non-European to receive the Schuman Medal for peace and human values, awarded by the European People's Party and the European Democrats in the European Parliament...
...also recognized that Taiwan needed to acknowledge China's might. Now that he is President, Ma wants to launch direct transport links with the mainland, lift restrictions on Taiwan businesses operating in China and open the island to Chinese tourists and investors. As he told my colleague Michael Schuman: "We can make cross-strait relations work for both - a win-win situation...