Common EU government unavoidable

German Chancellor Angela Merkel must show at the EU summit at the end of the week that she has confidence in Europe, writes the news portal Spiegel Online, predicting that a common European government is inevitable: "If the Germans voted today they would drop Europe cold. Merkel must woo the people - even if at the end of the day it could cost her her job. ... There will be no getting around a referendum [on the changes to the German Basic Law to allow for an extension of the competences of the EU]. ... The banking union and euro bonds are merely emergency measures with which the smouldering flames of the crisis can be smothered. After that the Germans will have a new Basic Law and the continent will have a common government, a common policy and a common destiny. That is the consequence of the entire European integration process since the Treaties of Rome. It's too late to turn back now."

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