The European Union sets a particularly bad example in all this.

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The political community of the 1950 s that France had persuaded its five European partners to accept was supposed to absorb both the European Coal and Steel Community and the EDC.

Both EU and NATO membership make war among European member states unthinkable, and an attack on even the smallest NATO member would bring a response from all NATO members.

With the prospect of entry into the EU, national markets matter less.

So why is the European business community claiming that the super Euro is bringing calamity down upon their heads?

In its early years the European Community was mainly concerned with peace, stability and democracy.

In 1951, French Prime Minister Rene Pléven proposed establishing a European Defense Community (EDC) alongside the ECSC.

Blair s EU disaster

European unity is indivisible.

Orban argued that revoking the Benes decrees must be made a condition for the Czech Republic (as well as Slovakia) joining the European Union. The ill will Orban's gambit inspired brought to a halt much of the regional cooperation of the last decade.

But Britain joined the European Community, not just the free trade area that Cameron now apparently wants.

Orban argued that revoking the Benes decrees must be made a condition for the Czech Republic (as well as Slovakia) joining the European Union.

But an EU with 10 new members simply cannot be run as it has for decades.

On March 25, 1957, the ECSC decided to go one step further, forming the European Economic Community (EEC) that expanded the powers competition of the common market to other goods.

But Britain joined the European Community, not just the free trade area that Cameron now apparently wants.

An extended EU should represent a means to balance the asymmetrical relationship between Eastern Europe's small countries with Germany.

Europe s Vision Free Leadership

Since its inception, the EU has sought to reach beyond past grief and, through cooperation, to build a better future.

If the European Union is to have a single market, the argument continues, then it needs a single financial regulator.

But the significance of the Commission's new line, is not so much the speed as the scale of the enlargement process on which the European Union is now embarked.

The European venture is immense.

European Expansion or Putin Expansion?

The French Socialists New European Identity

We have come a long way since the six founding members formed the European Economic Community back in March 1957 also in Rome.

If the EU builds its foreign and security policy on the basis of recognition of this truth, many of today's divisions will disappear.

One is Europe's aging population.

If not, the UN, NATO and the European Union will discredit themselves as well as the humanitarian values they use to justify their humanitarian'' interventions.

A video parodying the film Kill Bill and building on a clash of civilizations theme has been made by the European Commission (EC) to promote enlargement of the European Union to young adults.

Andean Community

European authorities are caught up in a similar mindset.

Tom likes American movies, but Mary likes European movies.

The European Community and its member States welcome the ratification of Mr. Malval as Prime Minister by the Haitian parliament and his investiture by President Aristede.

As a chairman of the Regional Economic Development Working Group, the European Community and its member States are prepared to contribute to all forms of regional economic cooperation.

Hundreds of European scholars are circulating a petition calling for a boycott of Israeli institutions other academics want the EU to deny grants to Israeli universities and scientific institutions.

But the EU and European governments must do more.

In Europe, we by and large failed to heed the warning signals of America s sub prime mortgage crisis when it erupted in the late summer of 2007, and thus were unprepared when the next phase of the crisis engulfed European banks, too. The lesson to be drawn is that the EU must move more quickly and with greater determination than has been the case so far.

The question for the European elite is whether we believe in the work of the past 20 years, whether we believe in an integrated European market and an ever widening European Community.

The European Community is ready to offer a package of immediate aid of 20 million ECU and to discuss medium term aid with Palestinian institutions as they are formed.

It is a community of human beings.

The Euro s Imagined Community

Community in peril

This is an international community.

The European Community and its member States offer their continuing political support and readiness to participate in further international arrangements arising in connection with implementation of the agreement.

In Libya, Col. Muammar el Qaddafi s appalling tyranny has collapsed the EU will be generous in helping the Libyan people start to build a modern pluralist society.