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Proposal for Federal Europe Is Denounced As Surrender by French Interior Minister June 1, 2000 The French interior minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, has denounced ideas about a federal Europe as a surrender to globalization that would keep Europe a "suburb in the American Empire." Taking aim at critics of his recent comments about Germany, Chevenement wrote in the weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur that the European Union could not evolve into a federation without losing its democratic legitimacy. Chevenement, who provoked an uproar by saying that Germany had not yet overcome its Nazi past, praised the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, for starting a debate about Europe's future. But he rejected Fischer's federalist vision and argued for a more integrated Europe made up of self-confident nation-states. "A burst of federalism is not a panacea," he wrote. "Dismantling nations can only lead to the triumph of globalization." He added that Europe must establish a strong union of nation-states to become "the crossroads of the world." "Are we resigned to never being anything more than a suburb, albeit a rich one, in the American Empire?" his article said. "To construct a European Europe, we need a German nation that is confident and has fully mastered its past. We don't need a Germany that flees into the 'postnational.' We need a citizens' Germany."
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