Those tears shed by now seem archived in faded memories Helmut Kohl in December 89 when he pleaded with the French president Mitterrand to help him to speed up the reunification between the two Germanys as much as possible.
The one Kohl spoke for was still pan-European Germany, that of Kant's "perpetual peace" and which with Genscher, in February 1988 had even launched the proposal of the single currency as a corollary to the single market. But, after the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, it has resurfaced the national-popular soul with a brake on any attempt to deepen the process of European integration.
The two souls of Germany in the book "The German Question" by Lopez Pina
In short, the two German souls compared now analyzed with scientific meticulousness by a jurist, state councilor and Spanish senator Antonio López Pina in the book "The German question” translated into Italian by the publisher Mazzanti of Venice and which was presented on Wednesday 12 October in Bologna in the presence of the author together with the former president of the EU Commission and former prime minister, Romano Prodi and to the former president of the Consulta, Gustavo Zagrebelski.
Pina's basic thesis is that this "skin change" of Germany finds a justification in the sense of superiority over other countries. But above all in the three judgments issued by the Constitutional Tribunal of Karlshrue in the matter of relationship between European law and German constitutional law.
German volknationalism
In the preface to the book, edited by two diplomats and great pro-Europeans such as Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi and Roberto Nigido, it is recalled that after the reunification and under the government of Schroeder and Merkel and with the complicity of the German Constitutional Tribunal "Germany has embraced "volknationalism" blocking any meaningful reform of the European institutions.”
A book, says Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi now written before the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis but which shows all its great relevance. One of the bad signs are the 200 billion euros to families and businesses decided by Berlin to deal with the energy crisis and now also the Economy Minister's no to a “Recovery fund for energy”. In short, according to Vanni, the wave of new sovereignty with Orban, Meloni, Abascal and Morawiecki is widening but the Berlin side is the most dangerous one for the near future.
