France's broken European dream

The crisis in the euro zone 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. Monnet and Schuman argued that a political union similar to America’s would prevent the types of conflict that had caused three major European wars — an appealing idea, but one that overlooked America’s horrific Civil War.

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