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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (52282)	3/16/1999 11:36:00 PM
From: Merritt	Read Replies (1) of 132070

MB: Thought you might enjoy the Times' take on the E.U. the-times.co.uk Fault lines of Europe "...There is a grander way of explaining events in Europe. Carolingian Europe, represented by the likes of Jacques Delors, Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand, is giving way to a Europe more concerned with good-housekeeping than compelling vision. The Emperor Charlemagne governed with an itinerant court and maintained subordinate courts in Neustria, Aquitaine and Lombardy. Each of 300 counties had its own imperial lieutenants. There was a central currency and a huge, swollen bureaucracy dependent on favours and bonded together by inter-marriage. The European Community, as it developed in the 1970s and 1980s, took on a Carolingian colouring with a Christian (Democratic) leadership and legions of staff paid much to do little. The old joke about a visitor gazing up at the Berlaymont building and asking: "Who works there?" - answer: "about 20 per cent of the inhabitants" - probably had a 9th-century equivalent..."

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