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The creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) by six Western European Nations (France, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) was supposed to be a step towards a united Europe.
Faced by a US distracted by Vietnam and domestic strife and the Soviet Union crushing resistance in Hungary and Czechoslovakia some kind of European Union could have been created by 1973 by men like Pompidou and Brandt.
Meanwhile Britain (as envisaged in some threads here) chooses to remain a blue water power and focus on her interests outside Europe.
What would be the impact of this change on the projects developed in Europe and procurement?
Faced by a US distracted by Vietnam and domestic strife and the Soviet Union crushing resistance in Hungary and Czechoslovakia some kind of European Union could have been created by 1973 by men like Pompidou and Brandt.
Meanwhile Britain (as envisaged in some threads here) chooses to remain a blue water power and focus on her interests outside Europe.
What would be the impact of this change on the projects developed in Europe and procurement?