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-49-3 an hour and a half or an hour. The technique has brought not only tribes but also peoples much closer together than was previously conceivable. Whereas it used to take twenty-four hours to talk about the press from Berlin to Prague on the detour, I do not need a second for it today. If you approach this microphone=, you can hear it at the same moment in Prague, Slovakia, Warsaw, Brussels and The Hague. While I used to take twelve hours to travel by train to Prague, I fly there in an hour on the plane today. This means that technology once again, a year= a hundred later, has brought people closer together. It is certainly no coincidence that this technical aid=medium has just emerged, because people have become more in Europe, and the multitude of people has put European society in front of completely new problems - problems of nutrition= and economic, financial and military nature. With the help of these technical achievements, of course, the continents have also come closer to each other. But among the European nations, the awareness is increasingly breaking, that much of what we are about to achieve among ourselves=