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<\/a>Your Mandarin happened upon this article<\/a> from Reuters regarding former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder\u2019s call for a \u201cUnited States of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now if your Mandarin recalls correctly, the last time a German Chancellor looked to unify Europe it ended with a gunshot in a bunker underneath Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your Mandarin happened upon this article from Reuters regarding former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder\u2019s call for a \u201cUnited States of Europe.\u201d Now if your Mandarin recalls correctly, the last time a German Chancellor looked to unify Europe it ended with …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1601,152,195,32,86],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-europe","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-nazis"],"yoast_head":"\nA United Europe... - The Gormogons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/united-europe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A United Europe... - 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