The German government originally wanted the Berlin declaration to rise above day-to-day squabbles and to stand the test of time.

ECONOMIST: Germany tries to look to the next 50 years of the EU

Throughout most of the text, the Berlin declaration is a strange mixture.

ECONOMIST: Germany tries to look to the next 50 years of the EU

But, of course, they were not around to sign the Berlin declaration.

ECONOMIST: Germany tries to look to the next 50 years of the EU

Europe included the greenhouse-gas cut promise in the Berlin declaration celebrating 50 years of integration, putting it at the core of Europe's purpose for the next half century.

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Although Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the two major research funders (along with the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture) have signed the Berlin Declaration, neither have OA mandates.

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