Abstract
Perhaps never has the European Economic Community been so close to dissolution as now. The accomplishments so laboriously achieved in the past from the free internal market to the common external tariff, from the agricultural policy to the budget fed by its own financial resources, from the anti-trust laws to the European monetary system are currently being severely tested by growing protectionism, a strictly nationalistic view of the common interest, and, more generally, by the increasingly divergent policies of member governments in the management of their individual national economic and social policies. The member states of the European Community (ec) today question not so much Europe's international role and the consequent importance of the Community having an autonomous identity, but rather the sum of the Community's internal economic policies and common market mechanisms. There is, in other words, a certain lack of trust and confidence in the 'old' Community, the one brought to life by the Treaties of Paris and Rome principally to create a single continental market and greater homogeneity among the economic areas and the industrial sectors of the member countries.
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