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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(1):2-4; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm110
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Solidarity in a unified Europe

Martin McKee

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Correspondence: e-mail: martin.mckee@lshtm.ac.uk

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The division of Europe that began in 1945 is now ended. The process that began with the decision by the Hungarian government to allow East Germans, free passage to the west led rapidly to the fall of the Berlin Wall and, two years later, the break up of the Soviet Union. The pace of change was remarkable and, in 2004 eight former eastern bloc countries, including three former Soviet republics, joined the European Union. In 2007 they were joined by two other former communist states, Romania and Bulgaria.1 The post-war division of Europe is now at an end. Or is it? It certainly can seem so, to the casual observer. But Europe is divided in many ways, and not just in geography. Benjamin Disraeli, a 19th century British Prime Minister, noted the presence, in England, of ‘Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Migration and solidarity
 

   Ageing and solidarity
 

   Conclusion
 

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