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plexities of the<br >at that we had<br >:ters for surveys<br >Financial Times<br >i a glimpse. So<br >~at market that<br >r publications<br >y.and its mar-<br >Community s<br >economic life，<br >r others it is a<br >er approach of<br >i and pragma-<br >] open Europe<br >ble to such a<br >lt-Rea of The<br > ho allowed us<br >list steeped in<br >n improbable<br >;tood.<br >THE QUIETER<br >REVOLUTION<br >Europe relaunched itself twice in the late 1980s. Eastern Europe pro-<br >pelled itself out of Stalinism， and thus made history Of the most stirring<br >sort - people reaching ~en masse for freedom， the constant menace of<br >repression， the fall of rott~en regimes， the crumbling of barriers and the<br >shining faces of the released. Cameramen were sated. Their images<br >imprinted themselves upon the world s consciousness.<br > Another relaunch was meanwhile occurring in Western Europe. It<br >was a cameraman s despair. The action took place in conference rooms to<br >the sipping of countless glasses of mineral water. The main danger was<br >of sleep. Without much initial passion to drive them， officials of twelve<br >governments talked life back into an old idea - that their economies<br >should form a truly common market. Such was their delight at manag-<br >ing this that another old idea took fire again， too - that their countries<br >should move away from national sovereignty towards a European politi-<br >cal union.<br > Their timing was good: just as the Twelve realised that their efforts to<br >create a single market were working， they saw Eastern Europe turning<br >towards them. Relaunched under the codeword "1992"， the European<br >Community had become the centrepiece of a new European order. Or<br >had it? Would Western Europe s painstaking demotion of the nation-<br >state really survive the ecstatic rediscoveries of national pride in the<br >East? This book tells of the quieter of the two relaunches - the tale of<br >1992 - and tries to discover whether the European Community s<br >relaunch has acquired enough momentum to transcend the breaking up<br >of the post-war order in Europe.<br > "It is hard to fall in love with a single market，" said Jacques Delors，<br >president of the European Commission. And indeed the prospect of a<br >common standard for pressure vessels， so that they may be traded freely<br >between Aberdeen and Athens without exploding， does not set hearts<br ><br >