Working in the bombastic Nazi-era edifice in Berlin that once housed Hermann Goring's air ministry, then the headquarters of the Red Army and later much of East Germany's communist government, Wolfgang Schauble knows more than most how Germany's democratic resurrection and reunification are bound up with European integration. But as the German finance minister wheels himself in to talk to the foreign media (he has been paralysed from the waist down since an assassination attempt in 1990), he cuts a lonely figure.
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