Fifty years of formal United States and European Union relations and European Union accession.(LEGISLATION AND POLICY)

From: DISAM Journal | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Powell, Colin | Copyright information

[The following remarks were presented at the reception in honor of fifty years of formal United States and European Union (E.U.) relation and accession, May 1, 2004.]

I often remark to my audiences and my colleagues that I never thought as Secretary of State that I would be working this closely with the European Union. I am a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) guy. I started my military career as a young second lieutenant in infantry in Germany along the Fulda Gap...

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