The European Community 1992 and Beyond [antikvár]

w, iat is the European Cormmunity? What makes it so unique yet so astonishingly diverse? One face of Europe displays diversity anc universality; the other reveals common basic values and a striving for unity. On the one side, we see a disparate family of nations embracing many differing cultures; on the other, a desire to develop a common identity, to make Europe 'European' - but without succumbing to the colourless uniformity of 'Europeanism' or to the temptation of blindly imitating the past. The history of Europe this century is not just a history of wars - as it has been for the severa generations who lived through them as victors or vanquished - nor of division and outside dominance, the last vestiges of which are now Deing dismantled. For Europe has always been a place of peaceful encounter and mutua exchange between peoples too, and this sharec experience lies as much at the root of European integration as the realization that a community is more than the sum of its members. Many of the things we now take for granted in the Community - peace, open borders, relative prosperity - have never been part of the natural order of things Defore.