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Don't tear up the treaty
The Treaty of Rome is 25 years old next Thursday. Its critics say it is out of date. They are wrong. The real problem is that the treaty is not being applied.
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It is impossible to imagine the 10 inward-looking governments of today's EEC signing such a bold free-trading document as the Treaty of Rome (the one that created the EEC; a lesser-known Treaty of Rome created Euratom). Consider the treaty's main tenets:
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