Abstract
ABSTRACT The European unity movement has always been a political as well as an economic project. Political objectives have included: eliminating areas of poverty and diminishing the appeal and threat of communism through economic and defense cooperation; solving the “German problem” (integration of the German economy into Europe, yet preventing German domination); completing the economic foundation by introducing a common currency; and helping to stabilize newly independent East European states. Controversy has always been present over the final goal of European unity: a full-fledged federal state capable of playing the role of a Great Power or a federation of nation-states with more limited missions. The underlying question: Is there a European “people” sufficiently cohesive to support a central state with an executive power independent of the political leadership of member states?
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