Wasn’t the fall of the Berlin Wall and incorporation of the former East Germany into the EEC kind of what led to the Maastricht Treaty and the formation of the modern EU?
Yes, afaIk it was France who insisted on a deeper European integration, e.g. the Euro as a unified currency, as a prerequisite for its consent to the German reunification.
Wasn’t the fall of the Berlin Wall and incorporation of the former East Germany into the EEC kind of what led to the Maastricht Treaty and the formation of the modern EU?
Yes, afaIk it was France who insisted on a deeper European integration, e.g. the Euro as a unified currency, as a prerequisite for its consent to the German reunification.