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The European Union, an economic and political alliance of 15 European states, is changing faster than at any other time in its 50-year history.
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Europe is on the verge of a period of dramatic growth. Before the decade is out, the EU may absorb up to a dozen or more new members -- including 10 ex-Communist states.
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The euro has provided a roller-coaster spectacle since it entered the world's international currency markets on January 4, 1999.
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In Austria's 1999 national elections, Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party polled 27 percent of the popular vote, sending shockwaves through the whole of Europe.
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With 80,000 pages of treaties, regulations, directives and opinions, the EU's vast body of law has often been the subject of debate and rumour in the European press.
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The European Union has embarked on a new phase of its existence, for the first time taking on a military role. Defence and foreign ministers have pledged the troops, ships and aircraft required to launch a new Rapid Reaction Force by 2003.
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