it would be a different Common Market that we would have to think of building and one that would be presented with problems in its economic relations with a host of other states, above all with the United States … It is predictable that the cohesion of all its members … would not last for very long, and that it would take on the appearance of a colossal Atlantic community under American dependence and direction. That is not at all what France aims to achieve, and is working to achieve, which is a strictly European construction.117 As he had predicted to Peyrefitte, de Gaulle had a lot of
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