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Why Berlin needs to find once again the european heart

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Why Berlin needs to find once again the european heart
"What can we do?" The answer was: "Nothing". The brief dialogue taken from Asimov's Foundation series, a science fiction masterpiece, referred to the threat of destruction looming over planet Terminus, while a powerful fleet from the galactic Empire led by Bel Riose was drawing closer. How can we defend ourselves?

That answer ("Nothing") was not a sign of resignation,

On the contrary, who said it had on their side the most invisible and powerful weapon; a weapon that historians, but not generals, know how to appreciate. Those who hoped for what seemed to be lack of action knew that weapons do not win battles; they knew that deep currents of history mold events and, considering the rigorous conviction that the Foundation's survival was historically inevitable, it was only a question of trustfully waiting for the moment and ways of that inevitable.

, it was only a question of trustfully waiting for the moment and ways of that inevitable salvation.
One would want that the same unfaltering confidence to guide us, like the pole star, while we wait for the outcome of the European crisis. Does Europe risk coming apart? Does the euro project, a glorious step in the integration process of our loved continent, also risk coming apart in the quick sands of nationalisms and ideologies?

 

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