Editing German reunification (section)

===Rest of Europe===
{{blockquote|I love Germany so much that I prefer to see two of them.|Giulio Andreotti, Prime Minister of Italy, quoting [[François Mauriac]]<ref name="folli20130507">{{cite news | url=http://mobile.ilsole24ore.com/solemobile/main?fn=srchFd&id=SEARCH%2FNEWS24%2FAbguVhtH | title=The Incarnation of Politics Is Gone | work=Il Sole 24 Ore | date=2013-05-07 | access-date=21 October 2014 | author=Folli, Stefano | archive-date=26 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026204453/http://mobile.ilsole24ore.com/solemobile/main?fn=srchFd&id=SEARCH%2FNEWS24%2FAbguVhtH | url-status=dead }}</ref>}}

[[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]'s [[Taoiseach]], [[Charles Haughey]], supported German reunification and he took advantage of Ireland's presidency of the [[European Economic Community]] to call for an extraordinary [[List of European Council meetings|European summit]] in Dublin in April 1990 to calm the fears held of fellow members of the EEC.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 April 1990 |title=Special Meeting of the European Council – Presidency Conclusions |url=https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en |access-date=5 March 2022 |website=European Commission |location=Dublin |language=en |archive-date=25 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825095835/https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=28 April 1990 |title=Special meeting of the European Council |url=http://aei.pitt.edu/1397/1/Dublin_april_1990.pdf |access-date=5 March 2022 |publisher=The European Council |location=Dublin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402231916/http://aei.pitt.edu/1397/1/Dublin_april_1990.pdf |archive-date=2 April 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Scally |first=Derek |date=29 April 2010 |title=Germany will 'never forget' Ireland's help |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/germany-will-never-forget-ireland-s-help-1.658399 |access-date=5 March 2022 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en |archive-date=11 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111193746/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/germany-will-never-forget-ireland-s-help-1.658399 |url-status=live }}</ref> Haughey saw similarities between Ireland and Germany, and said "I have expressed a personal view that coming as we do from [[Partition of Ireland|a country which is also divided]] many of us would have sympathy with any wish of the people of the two German States for unification".<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-03-03 |title=Find a Debate – Houses of the Oireachtas |url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/find |access-date=2022-03-05 |website=www.oireachtas.ie |publisher=Houses of the Oireachtas |language=en-ie |archive-date=17 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217045724/http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=DAL20050623.xml&Node=H10-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' later described other European leaders' opinion of reunification at the time as "icy". Italy's [[Giulio Andreotti]] warned against a revival of "[[pan-Germanism]]" and the Netherlands's [[Ruud Lubbers]] questioned the German right to self-determination. They shared Britain's and France's concerns over a return to German militarism and the economic power of a reunified country. The consensus opinion was that reunification, if it must occur, should not occur until at least 1995 and preferably much later.<ref name="wiegrefe20100929" /> Andreotti, quoting [[François Mauriac]], joked "I love Germany so much that I prefer to see two of them".{{r|folli20130507}}