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Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s pro­pa­ganda chief, once said: ‘In 50 years’ time nobody will think of nation states.’ 

COMMENT: Lux­em­bourg’s for­eign min­is­ter has added his voice to those not­ing Ger­man impe­r­i­al designs lurk­ing behind the facade of the EU/EMU.

Jean Assel­born has unequiv­o­cal­ly stat­ed that Ger­many aims for “hege­mo­ny” in the euro zone. A grow­ing con­sen­sus is emerg­ing echo­ing this sen­ti­ment. Blog­gers, Ger­man Euro­pean Par­lia­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives , finan­cial reg­u­la­tors and gov­ern­ment min­is­ters have expressed sim­i­lar opin­ions, how­ev­er they do not place the events unfold­ing in Europe in the prop­er his­tor­i­cal con­text.

Impos­si­ble to explain here, past a point, we have made mate­ri­als avail­able that will flesh out listerns’/readers’ under­stand­ing of the emer­gence of “Europa Ger­man­i­ca.”:

•  The Third Reich was an out­growth of pow­er­ful transna­tion­al cor­po­rate forces, as well as his­tor­i­cal Ger­man impe­r­i­al and chau­vin­is­tic designs.
• Long before their mil­i­tary capit­u­la­tion, the Nazis had planned to go under­ground.
• Head­ed by Reich­sleit­er Mar­tin Bor­mann, the Third Reich secret­ed its wealth in cor­po­rate fronts abroad and con­tin­ued to gen­er­ate enor­mous wealth and polit­i­cal influ­ence, dom­i­nat­ing the cor­po­rate econ­o­my of the Fed­er­al Repub­lic of Ger­many.
• The insti­tu­tions of the “new” Fed­er­al Repub­lic were con­trolled by Third Reich alum­ni at every lev­el, effec­tive­ly con­trolled from abroad by a “fuehreringsring” net­work.
• The Euro­zone cri­sis is the out­growth of Ger­many’s appli­ca­tion of the the­o­ret­i­cal prin­ci­ples of Carl von Clause­witz.
• The results of “troi­ka” pol­i­cy are dev­as­tat­ing the cit­i­zens of the nations sub­ject to Ger­man eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal fiat.

Lux­em­bourg Min­is­ter Says Ger­many Seeks Euro Zone “Hege­mo­ny” by Andreas Rinke; Reuters; 3/26/2013.

EXCERPT: Luxembourg’s for­eign min­is­ter accused Ger­many on Tues­day of “striv­ing for hege­mony” in the euro zone by telling Cyprus what busi­ness mod­el it should pur­sue.

Like Cyprus, Lux­em­bourg has a large finan­cial sec­tor, whose com­par­a­tively light-touch tax and reg­u­la­tory regime has long irked its much big­ger neigh­bours Ger­many and France.

Ger­many, the Euro­pean Union’s biggest and most pow­er­ful econ­omy, had insist­ed that wealthy depos­i­tors in Cyprus’s banks con­tribute to the island’s bailout and said the cri­sis has killed a “busi­ness mod­el” based on low tax­es and attract­ing large for­eign deposits.

“Ger­many does not have the right to decide on the busi­ness mod­el for oth­er coun­tries in the EU,” For­eign Min­is­ter Jean Assel­born told Reuters. “It must not be the case that under the cov­er of finan­cially tech­ni­cal issues oth­er coun­tries are choked.”

“It can­not be that Ger­many, France and Britain say ‘we need finan­cial cen­tres in these three big coun­tries and oth­ers must stop’.”

That was against the inter­nal mar­ket and Euro­pean sol­i­dar­ity, and “striv­ing for hege­mony which is wrong and un-Euro­pean,” he said. . . .

But crit­i­cism from core north­ern states such as Lux­em­bourg — a founder mem­ber of the EU and euro zone — is less com­mon.

Assel­born said it was cru­cial that small­er EU states in par­tic­u­lar were allowed to devel­op cer­tain eco­nomic nich­es.

Ger­many should also keep in mind it was a prime ben­e­fi­ciary of the euro zone cri­sis because its bor­row­ing costs have plunged as ner­vous investors seek safe havens, Assel­born added. . . .