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any to the capitalist West, and remake the country a peaceloving, the West’s trustedally image. Through these, he was able to regain and reunite the Ruhr region, a vital part of reconstructing the postwar German economy, from the joint Allied control. ? Mingled with the establishment of national identity and nationbuilding, European integration, from the outset, has been defined as being in Germany’s interests. ECSC for Italy ? Similar with Germany, Italy encountered the imperatives of rebuilding its international reputation and repairing the national identity damaged during the war (they were both fascist countries during the war). ? Italy was further troubled in the immediate postwar years with a risk of the Italian Communist Party, which remained the single largest party, taking over the government in elections. ? These made the then prime minister of the Christian Democrat government, Alcide di Gasperi, like Adenauer in Germany, to employ European integration as an institutional buttress for Italy to mesh the country with the capitalist system and a west European identity, politically and economically, as well as in the minds of its own people. ECSC for the Benelux ? A mon reason for the Benelux to join European integration is straightforward— they have very little choice but to join the French and German moves due to the high degree of their economic dependence and geographic proximity. They cannot afford to stay out of the French and German markets, nor can they bear any war happened again between these two larger neighbours. ? Also, on a nationbuilding level, with their already limited autonomy, European integration has been received as an international way to restore the sovereignty once lost to France and Germany by offering them an institutional level playingfield. ? For the fragme