Quotes like this happen a dozen times a century perhaps, paraphrasing a sea change in European Weltanschauung. Via Ezra Klein's Wonkbook:
"I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say so, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity."Habermas speaks out also. I'm still trying to parse this latest version of "More Europe; Less Europe" opinion writing. But insofar as the driving force of a Kantian Europe has always been the very non-Kantian economy, an economic crisis which unevenly distributes costs to certain countries suggests serious hurdles to a stronger union.
30 min Update: And then sometimes you move up one item in your well curated must read RSS feeds in NetNewsWire to find that The Economist also has a long discussion AND ties the Kant threads together.