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Michael Mertes

Michael Mertes was German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s advisor for European Affairs. Partner and manager of Dimap Consult (Germany).

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“We Must Not Let Our Greatness Flicker”

by Aleksander Smolar, Michael Mertes, Timothy Garton Ash , Dominique Moïsi

24 June 2005

For historians, May 29th and June 1st, 2005, dates of the French and Dutch “no”, will be crucial and symbolic moments to Europe. They mark the symbolic end of an era that began after the Second World War, a period characterized by reverence to the European Union, associated with peace, (…)