Two cheers for Europe
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1440238,00.html
Mark Leonard argues that the EU is a template for the future in Why
Europe Will Run the 21st Century. Martin Jacques is a little more
sceptical
Saturday March 19, 2005
The Guardian
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
by Mark Leonard
170pp, Fourth Estate, =A38.99
It is no longer fashionable to argue that Europe represents the future:
the United States, even China, but not the European Union, except
perhaps in concert with the Americans. Mark Leonard belongs to the
counterintuitive camp. He rightly argues that the EU has been a novel
and highly successful experiment: indeed, few - perhaps not even Jean
Monnet himself - would have guessed, back in 1950, that Europe would
look as it does today. And, surveying the future, it is Leonard's view
that the EU embodies the most compelling idea of what the world will -
and should - be like.
Mark Leonard
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