George Kish

Europe at sixes and sevens: a review

Professor Benoit (1) calls the program of European integration &dquo;the first significant Western innovation in statecraft since the nineteenth-century unification of Germany and Italy.&dquo; His book manages that rare feat, to present the pertinent facts about a major economic-political development of our time in clear, concise, and well-written prose while combining it with a challenging discussion of the economic principles involved and with a &dquo;vade-mecum&dquo; for United States investments in Europe under the aegis of European integration. The European Economic Community was bom at a meeting of the foreign ministers of Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg, held at Messina, Italy in 1955. It was preceded by the organization of the European Coal and Steel Community, consisting of these six nations, and subsequent to the Messina organization session, a European Atomic En-