Any Irish unification debate or process will 'go wrong' if it is framed as Northern Ireland 'joining' the Republic, warns German politician
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That is a feeling that, many say, has lingered over Germany’s unification process for the last 30 years. By front-loading economic reform and infrastructure projects, Germany overlooked the human element and, Mr Schneider argues, soon took on a “West Germany-plus” framing. Any successful unification process in Ireland, the politician suggests, should take the best from both societies rather than just impose one system on the other.
Responding to the survey, Mr Schneider has brought into play the idea of a corrective quota to force change and end a “kind of unconscious discrimination against people from the east”, a fifth of the total population. Instead of equality, he argues in his polemic that West Germans moved in quickly to control the means of production, of framing reality and defining identity. In this post-1990 Germany, he concludes, “the East” was a second-rate aberration of western Germany.
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