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8/3/05

"VIEW: Europe, an engine of peace —Wim F Duisenberg

Daily Times

Europe's integration of Muslim Turkey into its political union is the same sort of question of peace that Schumann and Monnet successfully confronted. Today, Europe needs peace between cultures as much as it once needed peace between nations, and it is for this reason that we must welcome Turkey

Critics of European monetary integration often point out that, in the absence of political union, monetary union is doomed to fail. I agree with the critics’ conclusion, but not with their premise, for the success of the single currency so far has been due precisely to the political commitments of the Union’s member countries.

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