another important historic landmark is entering the stage. 130 years ago – when Bismarck invited all the nations (of course only all the nations he was friends with) to the Kongo Conference to negotiate free trading at the banks of Kongo and Niger. Kind of a historic TTIP. BUT: even slaves were traded. And this was bad… Very bad for many countries – even continents (Africa!). And: the conference took place where? Berlin… eieiei. Ah, I love this historical place – even as a dog you cannot deny it.
Do not mix this conference up with the Berliner Kongress (Berlin again). 1887 a secret neutral treaty (auch Neutralitätsabkommen/ Rückversicherungsvertrag genannt) had been finalized between the German Empire and Russia to create a new European Peace Order in South East Europe. It took quite a time from 1883 on.
Don’t we have a kind of the same situation now, in a smaller version? With Greece emerging, carrying new political ideas along? But this time it is Europe negotiating. And they do not have as much time as in the 19th century.
Come on now, let’s make it better this time. Better than Bismarck did.