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Now that Croatia has voted in favor of joining the EU, albeit with a voting turnout that could have been higher, the question will go to the 27 current states within the EU. Will they allow Croatia to join them? It seems appropriate, therefore, to begin the process of posting my paper on the German view of European integration. It will most likely take 5-6, maybe 7, posts to do so.

The citations will be in the paper. The works cited pages will be the first post. So there will be two today. Then probably one every day or two until it's all up.

In the meantime, it's possible I will interrupt the series for another post. I thought about posting after Gingrich's blowout in South Carolina. But I didn't really have anything to add. So I'll wait and see if Florida offers anything. Last night's State of the Union and the GOP Response would also be potential topics, if I felt that either President Obama or Governor Daniels said something truly new and/or worth remarking on. Mostly, though, it was a rehash of what we've heard for the past year. I'll just throw out two numbers regarding the president's campaign against a do-nothing Congress. In 2011 Congress passed, and the president signed into law, 81 bills. In 2007, the last time there was divided government in a non-election year, 175 bills were passed by the Democratic Congress and signed by the Republican president. We'll see how Congress does this year, but those numbers indicate more-than-usual difficulties getting Congress to work with each other and with the president.

For now, that's all.