WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 573

*** La défense européenne. Etablissements Bruylant (67 rue de la Régence, B-1000 Brussels. Tel: [phone] - fax: [phone] - e-mail: [e-mail] - Internet: www.bruylant.be). 2003, 274 pp., 40 euros. ISBN 2-8027-1637-9.

In reality, less than an instrument of power, European defence appears more like a “necessary condition for Europe to get its voice heard and for it to play a role in the twentieth century”. And looking at it though the project since the failure of European...