https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Big-bang-in-slow-motion https://internationalviewpoint.org/Big-bang-in-slow-motion 2003-06-10T00:00:00Z text/html en László Andor Europe <p>Eastward enlargement of the European Union was not an historical necessity after the fall of the Berlin wall. The only exception was former East Germany, where German unification in 1990 represented the first actual enlargement of the EU - then the European Community - towards the East. German unification was decided in a popular and unilateral way, and the rest of Europe had to swallow its consequences.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV350-June-2003-" rel="directory">IV350 - June 2003</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Europe-+" rel="tag">Europe</a>