France’s Broken Dream
The European project has clearly failed to achieve what French political leaders have wanted from the beginning: instead of a sense of amity an unity in Europe, there is conflict. And, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel setting conditions for the eurozone, France’s ambition to dominate European policy has been thwarted.
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CAMBRIDGE – The crisis in the eurozone is the result of France’s persistent pursuit of the “European project,” the goal of political unification that began after World War II when two leading French politicians, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, proposed the creation of a United States of Europe.