Joschka Fischer's Federal Europe and Its Enemies

BRUSSELS: Joschka Fischer, Germany's foreign minister, set the cat among the pigeons when he laid out his vision of a federalist European Union. In Britain, where the idea of European federalism has never been popular, it was predictable that the Euro-sceptic newspaper The Times would denounce Mr Fischer's ideas. But even in France, traditionally committed to its partnership with Germany, he raised a small storm, most sensationally when Jean-Pierre Chevčnement, the French Interior Minister, responded with the bizarre claim that the Germans had not fully recovered from their Nazi past.

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