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...broken and sleeping reporters were sprawled around the press quarters when the Foreign Ministers of the Six invited British Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon to their conference room to hear his formal acceptance of their conditions for British entry. As Rippon stepped into the room on the second story of Luxembourg's modernistic Kirchberg European Center, the rumpled, bleary-eyed ministers spontaneously broke into applause. The gesture was as much an indication of relief as of welcome to Britain, whose two earlier bids had been rebuffed by Charles de Gaulle...
...Luxembourg's Kirchberg European Center this week, a meeting is taking place that may well mark a watershed in Europe's torn and often tragic history. For the fifth time in six months, the foreign ministers of the six members of the European Economic Community are meeting with Chief British Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon to clear the last hurdles on the terms for Britain's entry into the Common Market...
Barring an unforeseen snag, the British are almost certain to leave Luxembourg by the middle of this week with an attractive set of terms, including probably an initial British payment of just under 10% of the EEC budget. With Norway, Denmark and Ireland poised to join Britain in entering the Market, the Six may thus become the Ten by 1973 (the target date for formal British entry), giving Europe its greatest unity since the beginning of the breakup of Charlemagne's empire...
...both sides of the Atlantic are intensely debating a lengthening list of ideas for changing the global financial system. The discussion will heat up this week, first at a meeting in Basel of central bankers from the world's ten leading industrial nations, then at a gathering in Luxembourg of European Common Market ministers. All participants recognize that the makeshift measures that allayed the most recent crisis are not enough. Unless more fundamental changes are begun, there will be a new upheaval -sooner rather than later...
Even so, the show has been highly effective. In the 1950s, Luns was instrumental in the success of the economic union of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. He helped bring about the Treaty of Rome, which set up the Common Market, and Euratom, the pooling of Western European nuclear research facilities. He was also an outspoken champion of a strong NATO and of British admission into the European Economic Community. On both points he clashed with Charles de Gaulle, but the two men nonetheless developed a deep mutual admiration. Shortly before his death. De Gaulle sent Luns a copy...