Europe has been the stage for some extraordinary developments over the past decade, including the fa...
Europe has been the stage for some extraordinary developments over the past decade, including the fall of Communism, the break-up of the Soviet Union and the emergence of new democracies in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, the advent of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the launch of the euro and the European Union's (EU) plans for eastward expansion have prompted speculation that much of the continent will soon be united under one all-powerful federal government for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire. These momentous political events have inevitably overshadowed a c...
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