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 | | For the core states of the European Union, the euro will probably be a more powerful integrative force than any of these, though even a currency union is not necessarily much more of a Heimat than a customs union. |
 | | Border regions like Mosel-Rhine, for example, seem to have a real identity, marked in a slightly macabre fashion some years ago when after a bad motorway pile-up casualties were divided between the nearest hospitals, which happened to be in three different countries. |
 | | What is striking in this list, I think, is the way it includes, for good reason, formal-legal relations as well as other beliefs and practices which one might assign to the sphere of civil society. |
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