Word: pan-european
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...NATO as "a completely useless affair," Zhukov admitted sportingly that the same might be said of the Warsaw Pact. "We must dissolve the two blocs and organize a system of European cooperation, economically, scientifically, culturally and even politically." For a start, Zhukov backs a Belgian project calling for a "Pan-European orientation conference," at which parliamentarians from all European countries would voice their plans for collaboration...
...amount that averaged a bit more than 1% of the U.S.'s gross national product each year. The major beneficiaries were Great Britain ($3.2 billion), France ($2.7 billion), Italy ($1.5 billion) and West Germany ($1.4 billion). Washington insisted that U.S. aid had to be organized on a pan-European basis rather than as a congeries of bilateral arrangements. Thus, with the same economics-before-politics approach that was to lead a decade later to the Common Market, the U.S. helped pave the way to European cooperation. As Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, a founding father of the Common...
...rambling, 18-page declaration issued from Bucharest's erstwhile Royal Palace, there was not a word about a strengthened command structure-clear evidence that Rumanian Leader Nicolae Ceauşescu had once again thwarted Soviet designs. Instead, the declaration reiterated Brezhnev's call for a pan-European "security conference" aimed at the simultaneous dismantling of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. When Brezhnev first proposed the conference in March, he wanted to keep the U.S. out of any European settlement. This time, the U.S. role was purposely kept ambiguous. In any case, there was no indication in Western capitals...
That act of friendly persuasion is quite in keeping with the French role in Europe. De Gaulle shares the traditional French fear of Germany, and has been reluctant to see his trans-Rhine neighbor reunite. In that, De Gaulle is clearly a Frenchman first-but with a pan-European difference. As he said during his election campaign last year: "This country, this France which has bandaged her wounds, and God knows they were serious; this France which is regaining her power; ah, yes, she is devoting herself to establishing an equilibrium in the world. In brief, we are playing...
...strongly abroad in the wake of U.S. corporations that were establishing Common Market operations. The banks came along to handle financing for old customers, as well as such routine stateside services as company payrolls and pension funds. With branches spread through the Common Market, they discovered they were more Pan-European than the Europeans, solicited European business as well as American...