Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quropean Integration Failed? --Henry Brugmans, Rector, College of Europe, Bruges, Center for European Studies, 5 Bryant...
Perhaps the most important part of this outspokenness was its insistence upon the Eastern European and Soviet dissidents as models for a truly progressive liberalism in France. Ionesco sees the very fact that the voices of these intellectuals could still be heard under the mechanisms of state oppression as an optimistic sign for France's censored writers. It is proof that with a spirit of "real and genuine liberalism" there can be hope of non-doctrinaire artistic expression...
...just a change in leadership and policies but a mutation in the nation's economic system (see box). In addition, it might produce a constitutional crisis involving Giscard and a Socialist Premier with conflicting ideological views. There was the possibility too that France might become the first major Western European nation in 30 years to install Communists as heads of government ministries, a prospect that could only embolden the left throughout Europe...
...leftist victory has already caused a flight of capital abroad; if the Socialists and Communists won-and reconciled their differences-the left would have to engineer tough new restrictions on capital flow and, to save jobs, erect new tariff barriers. Such protectionism would isolate France within the European Community and gradually cut the country off from its trading partners. Even for Frenchmen, that is a prodigiously high price to pay for a free lunch...
...almost 40 years, this wise economist has been summoned by leaders of the chancelleries and the countinghouses for advice on money policies. He conceived the European Payments Union, which did so much to revive the Continent's economies from the ruins of World War II. Two decades ago, he warned that the monetary system was barreling toward calamity because the U.S. was pouring out so many dollars. Now back in his native Belgium, where he is advising the European Community while on sabbatical from Yale University this year, he watches forlornly as the dollar crashes to record lows relative...