Posted on 03/11/2015 10:10:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
They knew they were building an empire. If they just wanted a “common market”, then there was no need to already have the commission, parliament (then “assembly”) and all the other bureaucracies in place back then, including a nascent defense apparatus.
They don’t have any plans to take the “social” out of “social market economy”.
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