Gilbert Casasus: "The sacrosanct German political stability will soon be nothing more than a delusion"

Born of the ashes of the Second World War and established by the will of the Western allies, Federal Germany has adopted a political system that has never failed for more than seventy years. Written by the very hand of the “founding fathers” of the Republic, its Basic Law was not only taken up during the unification of 1990, but also served as a model for establishing a “constitutional patriotism” in which most Germans recognize themselves. .

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The bet was not won in advance: the division of the country, the cold war and a sometimes hazardous denazification cast some doubts on the future of a country still very fragile. With each upsurge of an extreme right, altogether without major influence for more than seventy years, the fears of a neo-Nazi Germany were reborn. These fears have remained unfounded and the FRG has always remained faithful to its democratic roots which no one has the right to question.

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