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Article: The Transformation of Governance in the European Union.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- March 1, 2001
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The Transformation of Governance in the European Union. Beate Kohler-Koch and Rainer Eising, editors. Routledge. [pound]60.00. 320 pages. ISBN 0-415-21548-X.
When interviewed in 1986, Roy Jenkins, erstwhile President of the European Commission, opined that the future constitution of the European Community, as it was then, would not be an analgoue of the U.S.A., but something new and unique in the annals of government. As Willem Buiter, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said about the U.K.: 'The idea that there is something especially mid-Atlantic about Britain is nonsense. I lived there for nineteen years and it's very ...