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May 28, 2012

France's Broken European Dream

Martin Feldstein, Project Syndicate

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The crisis in the eurozone is the result of France’s persistent pursuit of the “European project,” the goal of political unification that began after World War II when two leading French politicians, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, proposed the creation of a United States of Europe.

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