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The triumph of the Eurocrats Europe at 50
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International Herald Tribune
03-24-2007
If asked ''to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous,'' a man would without hesitation choose the second century A.D., Edward Gibbon wrote. Asked the same question today, a European would not be foolish to name the past 50 years. Even those who signed the Treaty of Rome creating the European Economic Community on March 25, 1957, could scarcely have fore...
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