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T. R. Reid The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy. The Penguin Press, 320 pages, $9.95
On May 1st 2004, ten countries with a combined population of 74 million became members of the European Union, bringing the total number of member states to twenty-five and the E.U. population to 454 million. This means that the E.U. now has a population half as big again as that of the United States and a gross domestic product almost as great as that of its Atlantic relation.
However, quite what kind of political entity has been created is a matter of dispute and, in important respects, the future of this flawed but vastly ...