Word: europeanist
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...approve Maastricht last June ignited simmering popular resentment, and France's razor-thin ratification proved just how deep public anxiety runs. The grass-roots revolt has redefined European politics, crossing the traditional left-right cleavages with new fault lines between poor and prosperous, rural and urban, nationalist and Europeanist. The Establishment seems stunned. "Either Europe will become more democratic," acknowledged E.C. President Jacques Delors, whose organization has its headquarters in Brussels, "or Europe will be no more...
...some Germans, however, those words may be too kind. Officials are uneasy when Americans talk enthusiastically of a special German-American relationship. The slogan "Partners in Leadership," which describes official U.S. policy toward Germany, touches a Europeanist nerve. "When one talks of leadership, one must think of the very successful system in the E.C., where every country has just one vote," says Volker Ruhe, general secretary of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, who was named Defense Minister last week. "We don't like to lead from the front. We like to lead from the middle of the crowd...
...sure that Germany stays in the "middle of the crowd" is to forge ahead with the integration of Europe. Kohl may be a better Europeanist than anybody else in Europe. "There was a tremendous sense of relief in the French delegation as we came back from Maastricht," recalls Maurice Gourdot- Montagne, a spokesman at the Quai d'Orsay. "We bet on Helmut Kohl because he is the most European...