Volume 46, Number 6 · April 8, 1999
Europe: So Far, It Flies
By Robert Cottrell
This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair
by Hugo Young. To be published in May.
Overlook Press, 558 pp., $39.95
Redrawing the Map of Europe
by Michael Emerson
St. Martin's, 268 pp., $65.00
As home to the main institutions of the European Union, Brussels likes to call itself 'the capital of Europe.' But the conceit does Europe no favors. Brussels is a dank, irritable city with some of the ugliest public buildings west of Warsaw. Think of it rather as the world's biggest company town. What they make there is European integration, and the market is booming.
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