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Europe’s Other Challenge

May 22, 2012   ·   0 Comments

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From: Eugene Schulman
To: Editor

International Herald Tribune
Paris, France

Sir,

I was happy to see in Juliette Kayyam’s essay from the Boston Globe
(reprinted IHT, 22 May) about Europe’s other challenge, that someone
finally acknowledges what the European Union was all about in the
first place. The EU was established not only to be a common market
for goods, but also a haven for peace and respect between the nations
that for centuries before knew nothing but war and devastation. Up to
now it has served this purpose. Since 1945 there have been no wars
between European states. Differences between economies
notwithstanding, nationalism has been all but snuffed out.
Unfortunately, the economic and financial crisis instigated by US
banks and their minions in Europe just might encourage a resurgence of
the very nationalism the EU was created to avoid. It would be a
terrible thing to lose all the humanitarian goodwill of the past sixty-
five years for the sake of a few financial gambles by a selfish elite.

Eugene Schulman
Geneva, Switzerland

[NYTX Editors Note: The  Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune are both subsidiaries of the New York Times Co.]

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