Word: euratom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, only a day after it passed the anticartel law, West Germany's Bundestag ratified both the Common Market and Euratom Treaties. The next step is approval in that graveyard of European aspirations, the French National Assembly. Last week, as the French Assembly moved into the final stages of debate on the two treaties, attendance was scant-at one point only 18 Deputies were in the chamber-and the sole outburst of passion occurred in the parliamentary bar, where insulted Communists felled an aggressive right-wing Deputy with a broken beer bottle. Cynics blamed the apathy...
...left and center, bickering among themselves, became aware of a common peril. By delaying the formation of a government, anti-European groups in the Assembly, ranging from Gaullists through tax-dodging Poujadists to Communists, hoped to postpone the scheduled June 14 ratification of the Common Market and Euratom treaties...
Shortly after the Suez invasion, and quite independent of it, Europe's Little Six, the Euratom countries,* set up a committee of three experts to study Europe's future energy supply. Last week the three brought in a surprisingly bold 20-page report...
...three, "will change our way of life just as much as the introduction of the potato." Noting that Britain has already launched a nuclear-energy program which by the end of 1965 will be producing roughly a quarter of Britain's electricity, the three experts said that the Euratom countries must do likewise. Since their population is three times Britain's, their target must be substantially greater. They called for 15 million kw. of nuclear electricity...
...meet their ambitious target, the six nations must first ratify the Euratom Treaty, and then ante up more than $6 billion. Even so, a decade hence, Europe, said the three, will still be far from self-sufficient in power...