1. What Europe means (to us) „ Ach Europa !“ ( Europe, Europe : Forays into a Continent) is the title of a book by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, which he wrote about half a century after the end of the last huge catastrophe of European civilisation. His diagnosis of the "paradox Europe" reads: " It is the irregularity, the confusion that makes Europe strong. The unity of the continent, as it is understood in the logic of the corporations, the political parties, the bureaucracies, namely as a project of homogenisation, proves to be a chimera. Europe is unthinkable as a ‘bloc’." This was his indulgent insight into the inner life of Europeans. In a fictional interview with the equally fictional US ambassador in Bonn, whom he calls just Murphy, he has the first-person narrator, in the role of an American ex-GI and journalist, projected 19 years into the future, paint a less friendly picture from the outside perspective: " The European Community? Forget it, Murphy! Yo