Word: copenhagen
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...Copenhagen summit," said a top-ranking American diplomat last week, "Europe will make its declaration of independence." That prediction is potentially true, possibly exaggerated. A Liberty Bell will not be rung in Copenhagen, but the statement of principles that is expected to come out of an extraordinary meeting of Western Europe's heads of government this week may one day be considered as symbolically important to Europeans as the Declaration of Independence is to Americans. A generation after the end of World War II, Western Europe seems determined to begin charting its own course-independent...
...American arrogance-may, however, be the catalyst that brings unity. "We have lost a decade in European unity," says an aide to French President Georges Pompidou. "But because of the Middle East war we are moving once again. Europe has always advanced only in crises and never in calm. Copenhagen will be the summit of truth to see whether or not there is the political will for Europe to go forward...
Ever since World War II, Western Europe has been struggling, fitfully and sometimes unhappily, toward unity. The latest Middle East war has shown just how tenuous that unity still is. Last week in Copenhagen, the Common Market Foreign Ministers met and agreed on a French-sponsored plan for periodic summit meetings. The first will be held Dec. 14 and 15 in the Danish capital in an atmosphere of unusual intimacy-even the Foreign Ministers will not be allowed into the discussions by the heads of state. Such a format, the Ministers reasoned, will allow their bosses to talk...
...unity rhetoric could be converted to energy, the Community would undoubtedly be self-sufficient. European diplomats insist that this time the drive toward unity is serious. The Foreign Ministers said in Copenhagen last week that the heads-of-government summit will "lay the groundwork for significant cooperation in matters of foreign policy ..." The problem with these promises is that they have been made before. The summits of '69 and '72 were supposed to lay similar groundwork, but precious little changed...
...agreement to prevent a collapse of the Dutch economy. At first the Dutch had merely hinted they might cut off supplies of natural gas, 41% of which they export mainly to West Germany, Belgium and France. Last week, at a meeting of the European Economic Community Foreign Ministers in Copenhagen, the threat was made explicit...