At 12:47 AM 12/22/00 +0100, Sonja wrote:
> but on the amount of
>money members contribute to the Europeen system.
I've never heard that before. I also have a hard time believeing that
France and Germany contribute equal amounts. Germany is just flatly so
much larger by almost any measure.
>The Europeen system is an
>economic based system. It is intended to make the Europeen market more
uniform
>and thereby stronger towards the rest of the world. It was never intended to
>take over the individual governments of each of the members.
Well, I believe that that is the matter of some debate over there, no?
After all, doesn't the European Constitution have a clause about "ever
closer union."
JDG
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