Word: supranationalist
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...political purge. In a series of laconic announcements last week, the Yugoslav press agency Tanyug reported the "resignations" of top-ranking Serbian and Slovene officials. In fact, they had been dismissed from office by President Josip Broz Tito, who had moved to put down nationalist strife within the supposedly supranationalist party he has led since...
...word communiqué, produced after a prolonged bargaining session that forced delegates to cancel out of a planned farewell party for them and some 400 guests, proclaimed the leaders' common objective: European union by 1980. The nature of that union was not specified. The Dutch, heading the supranationalist contingent within the European Economic Community, even threatened to veto any progress toward monetary union unless it was accompanied by sufficient advances in political integration. The Belgians finally produced a compromise-that the Community leave it to the EEC Commission and the European Parliament to devise plans for political union...
...phase out Europe's tiny farms and replace them with larger, more efficient units; a modified version of his proposal was passed the day after he took over as president. Within the staid EEC bureaucracy, he also developed a well-founded reputation for bumptious indiscretion. As a zealous supranationalist who advocated closer European union, he fought a number of ideological battles with France's Gaullist representatives in the early '60s. For years it had been assumed that the hostility of the French had cost Mansholt whatever chances he had of becoming president...
Besides, the original dream is not dead; it is only seen to be more evolutionary, just as the German nation ultimately emerged out of the North German customs union. And even such an ardent supranationalist as Monnet is now inclined to believe that a European federation, if it comes, will spring from a gradual change in the habits, tastes and prejudices of Europe's peoples. It no longer takes the huffing of a Stalin or the threats of a Khrushchev to make Western Europeans unite naturally...
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