European Federation
of Nation States
Unsuccessful Federation European federation,
based on its great national blocks,
unequal in size and strength,
would in the end become a federation in the interest of Germany,
because Germany alone would be large enough to enforce a federal
law,
and no law could be enforced without Germany's consent. Germany
would be arbiter and master. (first published as
Appendix IV to The Breakdown of Nation by Leopold Kohr in 1957)