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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8639

6 February 2004
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
"Will the United Kingdom really join Europe one day?" (chris patten)

The air hostess question. Will the United Kingdom really join Europe one day? It's not me posing the question but European Commissioner Chris Patten, who posed it last Friday, 30 January, in his "Alcuin lecture" at Cambridge University. In English, his question includes a certain nuance that I was unable to translate; I'll publish the original version, which was also asked recently of an air hostess during a flight, "Do you think that Britain will ever actually join Europe?" His answer, "Will...

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