EU wrestling with age-old ideas
A large and splendid coffee-table book is doing the rarefied rounds in Europe.
The print run is small, and at the moment, it is handed out only to VIPs, and some retiring EU officials.
It charts the attempts over the last seven centuries to draft the laws and constitutions that might bring Europe together.
That means there is no room for the abstract musings of Victor Hugo on the nature of Europe. It limits itself to those who tried to find ways to make the idea of Europe work.
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The print run is small, and at the moment, it is handed out only to VIPs, and some retiring EU officials.
It charts the attempts over the last seven centuries to draft the laws and constitutions that might bring Europe together.
That means there is no room for the abstract musings of Victor Hugo on the nature of Europe. It limits itself to those who tried to find ways to make the idea of Europe work.