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Article: Hans van den Broek, Europe's expander.(commissioner of the European Union will oversee its introduction in eastern Europe)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 6, 1998
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HISTORIC is a word that has been somewhat abused during Britain's soon-to-end six months as president of the European Union. Even such dreary events as a joint meeting of the club's environment and transport ministers has been garlanded with the H-word. Yet one planned happening really would make history: the Union's expansion to the east. It will be a fiendishly demanding business, which will severely test the commissioner entrusted with the task of overseeing the talks involved. He is Hans van den Broek-something of an unknown quantity. An inexhaustible traveller who was in the Caucasus this week, Mr Van den Broek does not lack experience. Before coming to Brussels in ...