Three episodes proved fundamental to the administrative and political unification of Germany.

But it has been a grudging member, repeatedly resisting efforts toward greater economic and political unification.

Since the German political unification in 1871 it was part of Germany.

In the absence of political unification, it was the universities that awakened the national consciousness.

Frontiers have served to consolidate at every stage the political unification already attained.

It is seen as a stepping stone to political unification.

"For me, the goal is the political unification of Europe," he affirmed today.

That is why I have supported the political and economic unification of Europe.

The chief result of this meeting was greater economic cooperation, not the previously discussed political unification.

The treaty is viewed as the single most important step toward political unification of the two nations.