Europe

Directorate-General For Translation European Commission

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• Defence policy
• Diplomatie (homonymie)
• European integration
• Yougoslavie
• Immigration

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION
• Nombre de lectures: 18
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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EUROPE
THE STRANGE SUPERPOWER
David Buchan EUROPE: THE STRANGE SUPERPOWER Europe: The Strange
Superpower
DAVID BUCHAN
Dartmouth
Aldershot · Brookfield USA ■ Hong Kong · Singapore · Sydney © European Communities 1993
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Published by
Dartmouth Publishing Company Limited
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Dartmouth Publishing Company
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Buchan, David
Europe: Strange Superpower
I. Title
330.94
This book was written and published with the support of the Commission of
the European Communities.
Printed and Bound in Great Britain by
Hartnolls Limited, Bodmin, Cornwall.
ISBN 1 85521 441 5 hbk
ISBN 11 439 3 pbk Contents
Foreword vii
1 Many-headed Might 1
2 The Roots of Power 9
3 The Roads to Maastricht 27
4 The New Set-Up 43
5 Europe's Diplomatic Service 55
6 Yugoslavia: A Tragic Failure 6
7 The Wider Europe 8
8 The Southern Flank 10
9 Immigration: Slamming the Door? 123
10 The Other Superpowers 13
11 Europe in Uniform 15
12 Variable Europe 167
Index 175 Foreword
I am, first of all, grateful to the European Commission for initiating
this book, and thereby giving me the chance to distill between these
covers my journalistic experience in Brussels and elsewhere. In equal
share, therefore, my gratitude goes to the Financial Times for posting
me twice to Brussels - first, in the doldrums of 1976-78 and, second,
in the heydays of 1988-92 - and to Washington and Eastern Europe in
the intervening decade.
A large number of people have helped me directly or indirectly in
writing this book. I cannot list them individually, because they are
too many in total and some requested anonymity in conveying their
views. But I would like to express my collective thanks to officials of
the European Commission and of the Council of Ministers' secre­
tariat, diplomats of EC and non-EC governments in Brussels, and to
my fellow journalists of all nationalities there. I am also very grateful
to Ingram Pinn for permission to enhance this book with his remark­
able cartoons.
My special thanks go to Fraser Cameron and David Perry of the
Commission for their untiring help, to Dartmouth for their speed in
publishing, to my family, children and, above all, to my wife Lisa for
their patient support in letting me write another Euro-book. This one
I dedicate to the memory of my father, who spent his life charting the
rise and fall of 'ordinary' superpowers and who, I think, would have
been most intrigued by the development of this 'strange' one.
David Buchan
Paris
April 1993
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