Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Roy Jenkins was Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer a decade ago, he boasted about his record of bringing "public expenditure under very sharp control." He has been less successful in his tenure as president of the European Commission, a job he has held for the past 2½ years. During his stewardship in the European Community's top administrative post, a recent audit has revealed, many of the E.C.'s 13 commissioners went on an expense account binge that was anything but controlled...
...page audit, which was prepared by the European Court of Auditors and promptly leaked to the West German weekly Stern, disclosed that the commissioners, who administer the E.C., had run up expenses that cost taxpayers from the nine Common Market nations a total of $1.4 million last year. In addition the commissioners were paid $2.1 million in salaries and allowances. The auditors turned up such items as Jenkins' $3,842 bill for liquor consumed in his Brussels office, Danish Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach's $126,993 transportation tab, and West German Commissioner Wilhelm Haferkamp...
Other Western European states have had to deal with sizable racial minorities in the form of "guest workers" who have been allowed in on a temporary basis to fill factory and public service jobs. But in Britain, by contrast, most of the minorities are citizens; moreover, fully 40% of the country's nonwhites were born in Britain, and that proportion is swelling fast as a result of a birth rate that is 50% higher than the national average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup...
...flight to Warsaw, Historian Raul Hilberg (The Destruction of the European Jews) regarded the few survivors among the travelers...
...reckoning, is now spending at a rate of about $100 million a month, guarantees for even $750 million in new debts (on which interest would have to be paid) will not go very far. Next year the company will have to repay or renegotiate $303 million in European loans and $284 million in U.S. borrowings. The prospects are good that the company, after a hard fight, will win congressional approval for aid in 1979. But the chances are also strong that hungry Chrysler, like Oliver Twist, will return for more some time next year...