Word: rougement
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...danger of such increasingly vocal unrest is that it could poison relations between states and thus slow down the pace of European integration. But many scholars argue plausibly that ethnic differences do not so much foreclose the future as point the way to it. Swiss Philosopher Denis de Rougement looks for a gradual emergence of new "communities of mutual interests" that transcend established frontiers. One such community might be the region bounded by Lyons and Grenoble in France and Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland-four cities already united by proximity, language (French) and common commercial interests. Says De Rougement: "Europeans...
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