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...early, heady belief of Common Market Founder Jean Monnet that economic integration would lead to political unity. That evaluation no longer seems inevitable or even necessarily desirable to most European leaders. They are not in the mood for the arduous tasks of adopting a common currency, formulating joint defense and foreign policies, or agreeing on a multilateral energy program. There is no longer a convergence of national interests among West European nations. As a top Belgian Foreign Ministry official noted last week, "The Germans no longer need Europe, not even economically for its large markets. The French are convinced that...
...necessity, as Jean Monnet insists, is the great federator, then Europe's time has finally come. In fact, it may already be too late. First, there was the profound humiliation of a community of 253 million people, with a gross national product of some $700 billion, reacting like a pitiful, helpless giant in a conflict far more vital to its well-being than to that of the United States or the Soviet Union...
France's Jean Monnet, spiritual godfather of the EEC. In a way they have. With the expansion of the Common Market from six to nine members-and, more important, the breaking of the French-German deadlock that paralyzed it through the De Gaulle era-Europe now seems at what Italian Author Altiero Spinelli describes as "the brink of a moment of creative tension...
Even if they do accept it, and even if the Nine achieve their next goal of a monetary union by 1980, Europe will still be a long way from the political union that Jean Monnet and his fellow prophets of the new Europe envisioned in the 1950s. It is a commonplace by now that Europe's 19th century nation-states are simply too small for the scale of modern commerce, as the uncertain flight of the Concorde shows. So far, they are being asked to pull together only enough to deal with a limited range of needs: to organize...
...Minister Edward Heath, with whom Nixon met in Bermuda last week, scored a decisive and deserved victory in persuading the House of Commons to approve Britain's entry into Europe's Common Market in 1973. He thus ended an often bitter ten-year struggle, bringing a step closer Jean Monnet's grand vision of a united Europe. West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt won a Nobel Peace Prize for his continued efforts to reach a reconciliation between his nation and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, an Ostpolitik whose initiation helped make him TIME's Man of the Year...