Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome

• Main Author: Martens, Wilfried (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: History.; Political science.; Popular works.; European Economic Community literature.; History, general.; Popular Science, general.; Political Science.; European Integration.

Wilfried Martens - Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome Foreword by Angela Merkel Wilfried Martens has devoted his entire life to politics: as student leader, youth activist, President of the Flemish Christian Democrats, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European People's Party and European...

Table of Contents:

• Looking Back on My Life
• Conviction and Responsibility
• In Charge of a Restless State
• Small Country, Large Responsibilities
• My Road Towards Maastricht
• “O Hellenic Shore Where Our Fathers Dwell …”
• The Fall of Santer
• A Cordon Sanitaire Around Austria
• “He Did Not Take the Fruit of Those Who Had Planted the Tree …”
• Pushing Forward in Europe and Beyond.