Volume 54, Number 7 · April 26, 2007
Happy Birthday!
By William Pfaff
On Sunday, March 25, the European Union celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which in 1957 established a customs union, common market, and institutions of economic cooperation among six European states—which have now become twenty-seven. Earlier in the month there was another anniversary. The United States, its coalition allies, and Iraq noted the beginning of their fifth year of combined international and internecine war in Iraq, initiated by Washington to establish peace in the Middle East.
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