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*** DESIGN FOR A NEW EUROPE

Professor John Gillingham, senior Harvard research scholar, has written a
valuable book, "Design for a new Europe".   In a lecture to launch it
earlier this month he argued that the EU must change fundamentally,
otherwise it "will either drift off into irrelevance, become an obstacle to
desirable change, or at worst, its structural failures could trigger
financial panic."

Professor Gillingham called for an overhaul of the Brussels institutions,
and the return of powers over the CAP and regional funding to Member
States.  He also argues that the EU needs to develop a more flexible
structure, consisting of a minimal number of common policies with all
additional policies operating on an "opt in" basis.

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