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It is either time to further restructure the continent which was responsible for two World Wars and the Holocaust, or to return to a past, as defined by Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini (Photo: Eszter Zalan)

Europe before the elections - heading back to the past?

by Anton Pelinka, Vienna, March 26, 2019, 6:02:09 AM
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Looking ahead to the European Parliament ballot which ends on May 26, Jacques Delors springs to mind.

The European Commission's former president, often touted as the architect of the Maastricht treaty, has warned that the European Union should only embark on 'Eastern enlargement', bringing in former communist countries, once it has finished the process of 'deepening', making the bloc into a federation.

Regardless of the outcome of the ...

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Anton Pelinka was a professor of political science and nationalism studies at the Central European University in Budapest from 2006 until 2018. He is one of the authors of the SGI Report 2018.

It is either time to further restructure the continent which was responsible for two World Wars and the Holocaust, or to return to a past, as defined by Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini (Photo: Eszter Zalan)

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Anton Pelinka was a professor of political science and nationalism studies at the Central European University in Budapest from 2006 until 2018. He is one of the authors of the SGI Report 2018.

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