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'Multispeed' Europe |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--EUROPEAN UNION AT LAST? |
| Author: Robin Niblett |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,579 Words, 17,231 Characters |
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The process of European unification in the twentieth century has been driven by a dual vision. For its founders such as Jean Monnet, the European Community (EC) offered the states and peoples of Western Europe the opportunity to become stronger and more prosperous by transcending the inherent limitations of their national boundaries.
By agreeing to cede sovereign control over a gradually expanding range of economic and social policies, European states would overcome the inefficiencies and dangerous rivalries of competing national ambitions--ambitions that had plunged Europe into two world wars in the space of 25 years.
Ultimately, Europe's states would be blended into a more federal European construction where they would serve as regional representations within a unified European gov...
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...st track" leaves a host of unanswered questions about how the EU can manage the relationship between those inside and outside the single-currency zone. There is little doubt, moreover, that imposing a new layer of institutional complexity and division at the heart of the EU will only serve to weaken further the sense of attachment between EU citizens and the ideal of a genuine European Union.
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