Riunificazione tedesca e progetto di unificazione europea

Abstract

It is historically untrue that Andreotti’s famous joke about the two Germanies expresses his position on German reuni cation, even among the widespread fears, as unjust, of a reunited Germany. It was Andreotti’s formula ‘Europe hopes for and promotes German unification’ that broke the deadlock between European rulers on the future of Germany: a breakthrough to which the launch of the single currency is also linked. The paper deals, moreover, with the error of the failed European political union.