What if We Could Just Focus on the European Union?

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Some nea liberals were central to designing it for every seemingly new liberal institution, as well as vehement detractors on the left. And this goes back to the 19 67 treaty of rome, which creates the european economic community. The history is important because it shows us how many pressure points and how many breaking points there were on all these institutionsAll the way through.

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