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Why It Matters to America |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--EUROPEAN UNION AT LAST? |
| Author: Jeffrey Gedmin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,144 Words, 14,209 Characters |
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"Almost everybody knows what the Europeans are missing," observed the prestigious German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a recent editorial. "They say too much that is incomprehensible," the paper continued, "and decide too little that is important." Europe is still reeling from its inability to cope on its own with war in the former Yugoslavia.
Led by Germany and France, the 15 members of the European Union (EU) are enmeshed in the arduous process of achieving monetary and political union by the next century. The "deepening" of European integration, as it is called, has become the butt of countless jokes because of the Brussels bureaucrats' seemingly relentless efforts to forge common policy on everything, even the curvature of bananas.
One recent EU project had a panel of s...
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...rds to be completed in January. The result, he said, would be less red tape and lower prices for consumers.
Whatever the results of the EU's efforts to achieve deeper integration, the United States has a vital interest in the process. Americans would do well to pay close attention to Europe's next steps and not forget the enduring value of U.S. leadership in this part of the world.
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