ABSTRACT
Unified Germany would do well to strengthen its federal structure, stressing checks and balances between branches and levels; openness is best guarded by insuring the highest standard of press freedom in Europe. Germany's allies, rather than station troops forever on its soil, should establish the ties of multinational universities, agree on business disclosure standards, and start joint journalistic satellite ventures. Such a new, open Germany would want to offer a Berlin site to the 35-nation European Security Conference, not to dominate this halfway house between the UN and NATO, but to have a vast bureaucracy of the Continent's politicians and reporters continually poking around. Tomorrow's Germany will be happier place for embracing transparency. And the rest of the world will feel safer. It is safer for a culture to be self-suspicious to a fault than self-deluding to a fault. On matters that affect civilization's core values, better to nose around too much than resolutely to see no evil.
