The Protracted Conflict: Europe and All That

One thing is certain in the fast-moving and unpredictable Falklands crisis, which surrounds me as I write this column: things will never be the same again. They will not be the same in the South Atlantic, nor in the Americas, nor in the Alliance, nor even in Europe. I shall focus now on the European aspect.

If I may declare my position, I am what you might call a “mild” European, not a fanatical one. I have always been less than enthusiastic about the original “Europe of the Six” and even of the Nine or Nine-plus. But, for here and now, the point is that the European Economic Community (EEC) is being subjected to perhaps the severest battering it has endured since Charles de Gaulle was around, and largely because of the Falklands.

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One thing is certain in the fast-moving and unpredictable Falklands crisis, which surrounds me as I write this column: things will never be the same again. They will not be the same in the South Atlantic, nor in the Americas, nor in the Alliance, nor even in Europe. I shall focus now on the European aspect.

If I may declare my position, I am what you might call a “mild” European, not a fanatical one. I have always been less than enthusiastic about the original “Europe of the Six” and even of the Nine or Nine-plus. But, for here and now, the point is that the European Economic Community (EEC) is being subjected to perhaps the severest battering it has endured since Charles de Gaulle was around, and largely because of the Falklands.