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Since the beginning of its statehood the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) has committed itself to the cause of European integration seeing in it an opportunity to build a democratic state within a wider framework of democratic Europe. The FRG treats its engagement in the process of integration as a Europeization of its foreign policy. Already as a Bonn republic it was among the initiators of establishing...