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Britain's Big Tent; The real 'new Europe' is an arc of countries that share a very English approach to the region.

Newsweek International

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Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Peter Snowden and Marie Valla in London)

In a construction-clogged corner of Brussels, the sterile towers of the European Union rise above Schuman Circle. As they should. Robert Schuman was among the French statesmen who helped create what has become a formidable union of 25 nations and 450 million people. From Schuman's postwar European Steel and Coal Community to the Common Agricultural Policy to the single currency, the great European initiatives of the past half century have always been French and served French interests.

Around Schuman Circle today, the symbols of France's vanished hegemony in Europe are equally ...

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