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Facing Two Possible Futures |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--THE ROCKY ROAD TO EUROPEAN UNITY |
| Author: Stephen Haseler |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,298 Words, 14,002 Characters |
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As 1992 draws to a close it is becoming clear that the great project of European unity is in more trouble than at any time since the Common Market was founded in 1957. This uncertain chapter opened in September when President Francois Mitterrand called a referendum of the French people in order to ratify the Maastricht Treaty on Euro union.
Although Mitterrand's gamble was an act of political guile--to split the French Right and thus improve his credibility as president--the vote served a greater purpose. It revealed that public support for the unification process is lukewarm. And the resulting wafer-thin French "yes," or "petit oui" (it secured only 51 percent of the vote over an odd combination of farmers, communists and Rightists around Le Pen) came on the heels of a Danish popula...
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...russels. Whether the governments will give the Parliament such powers is the great unanswered question facing the new Europe.
If, as Europe unites and develops, the European Parliament remains an empty shell and the central Euro apparatus in Brussels emerges more powerful than ever, then the scene will be set for a Euro fizzle more damaging than the currency hurricane of September 1992.
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