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Roads. Once part of a backward, undeveloped pocket of northeastern France, Strasbourg today has the Continent at its doorstep. Some 230 trains pass through the town daily, and there are 5,000 miles of quality roads in the immediate area, including German autobahns and Swiss autoroutes that put Frankfurt and...
EVEN as a "new Europe" is trying to stitch itself together, an old one is doing its best to pull the Continent apart. For all the talk of unity, Europeans have not yet surmounted the chauvinistic prejudices that permit Belgians to think of neighboring Dutchmen as supercilious stuffed shirts, Germans...
There is, however, an even greater threat to the realization of Charles de Gaulle's loftily imprecise dream of a Europe des patries-a Europe of the fatherlands. That is the persistence of myriad old tribal and regional interests and loyalties lying within and across the Continent's...
Ethnically, the Continent is a plexus of unassimilated minorities. Western Europe alone embraces 30 different ethnic communities, ranging in size from the 20,000 Slovenes of Austria to the 4,000,000 Catalans of northeastern Spain. They are re-emerging partly because of what the Italians call disten-sione-the...
FOR the past five years, with America's energies and fears focused on Viet Nam, Washington pretty much took Europe for granted. Now the Administration is noticing the Continent in a way that suggests that Europeans may soon want a new era of benign neglect. "Maybe we've...