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Let's hear it for Europe
Germans celebrated, with free sausages and beer, at the biggest birthday party for the European Union last week, marking 50 years of a confederation that is surpassed only by the United Nations in pulling together enemies that spent the first half of the 20th century slaughtering millions of people.
Europeans and Americans who grew up during European wars, hot and cold, are passing from the scene, and their younger successors know a world in which Europe is at peace.
Will the younger leaders, and those who follow, allow Europe to slip back into narrow nationalism, or is the union celebrated last week so ingrained in the European psyche that it cannot be dislodged?
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