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    Old Europe VS New Europe

    "Europe," proclaimed de Gaulle, "is France and Germany: the rest are just trimmings." The celebrated Letter of the Eight expressing support for the U.S. stance on Iraq has been seen as giving substance to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's evocation of "New Europe" as a counterweight...
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    British GDP about to reach 2 trillion

    1975 Billion Dollars (exchange rate of 1.795) at the present moment. Europe's fastest-growing economy, and the world's 4th largest, about to become only the 4th country in the world to reach 2 trillion and should soon overtake Germany to become Europe's largest economy for the first time since...
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    UK vs. EU Article Ramblings

    Re: how long will the EU stay in E? On 1st January 1973, Conservative British Prime Minister Edward Heath took Britain into the European Common Market. Heath reassured Parliament and the British people at the time that British sovereignty would not be affected and that we were just joining a...