>>>Are you talking about Brexit, or the prospect of Germany leaving the EU?
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>>In the last years my position was mostly along GB arguments - typically hoping to slow down do-gooding from within. A few H after my post a similar take on punitive conditions for GB after article 50 has been pulled was printed in
>>http://www.wiwo.de/finanzen/boerse/stelter-strategisch-2030-wuenschen-wir-uns-vielleicht-wir-waeren-ausgetreten/13806652.html
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>>Google translate not perfect, but more than good enough to follow the arguments, example from the article:
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>>I particularly like the argument that GB might be better off compared to Germany, if in the future german industry grows accustomed to the artificially lowered € due to other states keeping up practices seen in 1960 - 1990 to keep their goods attractive (Italian pattern of devaluating the Lira).
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>For me German re-unification was only ever acceptable within the context of a European union.

Kohl was eager to win another election term and make him the chancelor of re-unification, so the process was rushed, too many random promises were given, population over there was bribed and this gave the conservative coalition 2 more wins instead of the 0 or 1 win without re-unification.
I would have preferred a slower, 3-9 year period for better estimation of funds needed, worth of things in GDR and less of a need to come to an agreement over a few nights.
Re-unification had never been one of my targets, I did not suspect having to honour cold-war speeches made by politicians of my fathers generation.