It may be a German reality now, leading to empire, but it was France’s dream - when they weren’t allowed by their allies and the world community to just annex Germany’s Saarland outright after WWII like they did Elssetz and Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) after WWI. That coal and industrial agreement between the two is the core from which the EU developed.
An empire where people are free to send sentences in prepositions...
The Germans may find it too large of a burden to bear. Just a though.
The author is not quite grasping the depth of insanity among German politicians. Nothing about the EU is in the German interest. These politicians are selling out their own country’s interests for their dream of a European superstate, a kind of European Union of Socialist Soviet Republics led not by Berlin but by communists in Brussels. They presumably expect a nice position in the ruling bureaucracy of Brussels in the future. Nobody in Germany wants any of this, except some left-wingers, of course, and nobody agrees with throwing trillions of German tax-payer money out the window for the EU.
When I arrived in Germany for a six year stay, my next door neighbor told me, “Forget about the German work ethic. It doesn’t exist anymore. Just try getting something repaired.”
It’s all relative, of course. The work ethic may have declined in Germany. but it is still stronger there than among its neighbors.