Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe's biggest step toward unity-the six-nation Common Market born last New Year's Day. Cynics called the Common Market a compromise between people who wanted to unite Europe without appearing to do so, and those who wanted to give the appearance of working toward European unity without actually achieving it. And when Charles de Gaulle came to power in France last June with his mystical ideas of national grandeur, doomsayers were quick to compose their epitaphs on European unity...
...fact, De Gaulle has forced a change in the philosophy of the Common Market: he is adamantly opposed to giving supranational power to any European organization, economic or political. But his government has scrupulously carried out all its Common Market Treaty obligations, and his ministers insist that they are not "anti-European," but in favor of something called "cooperative unity" the hammering out of common European policies in negotiations between fully sovereign governments...
...Joyous Entrance. To the tidy-minded who demand tables of organization and clearly drawn lines of authority, cooperative unity sounded suspiciously like a fancy phrase for doing nothing. But since 1953, European railways have pooled freight cars as U.S. railroads do, now have some 200,000 cars marked EUROP roaming one another's tracks. Another joint project soon to be established is Eurocontrol-an integrated system of air-navigational control...
...additional kilowatts of electricity by 1963. And in the spanking new Common Market headquarters on Brussels' aptly named Avenue de la Joyeuse Entree, Walter Hallstein, the German law professor who presides over the Common Market executive, could point to solid progress. Already the Common Market's European Investment Bank (capital: $1 billion) had made its first loans. Others of Hallstein's 1,000-odd employees were busily working out common tariffs and establishing procedures so that any citizen of the Six may seek a job or set up a business anywhere in Common Market territory...
...unattractive to those who dreamed of a united Europe. In fact, most of them are thoroughly content with cooperative unity. Says Walter Hallstein: ."Perhaps it's common sense to do it this way because we are dealing with conservative forces." And by capturing the conservatives, advocates of European unity have destroyed the most effective argument against them-the charge that a man cannot be a good European and a French or German patriot at the same time...