Jacques in a box: Europe's Union.(European Commission Pres Jacques Santer)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: February 24, 1996 | Copyright information

JACQUES SANTER, the European Com-mission's president, has a rare chance to assert himself. Will he do so? The European Union is in disarray. Its members are not at one over when, how and--if you listen to all the discordant noises coming out of Germany and France--even why the proposed single currency, the euro, should soon be filling European wallets. At the same time, the Union is about to enter bruising negotiations which should lead to a revision of the Maastricht treaty, a process which starts formally at an "inter-governmental conference" opening in Turin next month and which ...

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