The Local (Germany’s daily in English) nicely
marked the six decades that have transpired since the “little reunification” when the Protectorate of the Saar voted in a public referendum to reject economic annexation by neighbouring and occupying France as a dependency six decades ago in order to join the
reconstituted West Germany, fully implemented some two years later. This decision, couched in the complex history and politics of the small territory, is often forgotten and overshadowed by the reunion of
West and East in 1990, represents an important previsioning of sorts of the integration and cooperation that anticipates the spirit of the European Union
