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I visited Waterloo on the suburbs of Brussels where the most celebrated Western emperor Napoleon Bonaparte met his final defeat at the hands of the Seventh European coalition. A great and brilliant military commander and politician, Napoleon left behind an administrative and educational foundation that his French homeland still uses. Though he moaned on his deathbed that ‘I die before my time, killed by the English oligarchy and its hired assassins’ Napoleon met his ‘Waterloo’ trying to enforce a new world order in the nineteenth century at a time when Europe was not keen on integration.

But the same Europe today has integrated as European Union, a much wider community than that Napoleon attempted to create forcefully, but brought together by interests. The general had argued at the time that ‘there are only two forces that unite men, fear and interest’. How true! Where he met his ‘Waterloo’ is now ironically the capital of Europe, hosting the EU and NATO headquarters. EU was motivated by economic interests, and NATO was necessitated by fear of the Soviet Union.