unwieldy.  Some have EU currency,

some don't.  Some have Schengen,

some don't.  

Meantime, there's no common

standard of taxation.

And there's no coverage of

large parts of Europe.  Are

Serbia, Russia and Switzerland

not European? 2/3rds the volume

of the Rhine, including runoff,

comes from Switzerland.

And what about the oil of Norway?

Right now, late June, we're back

to an Other to Russia, but no

tie to Britain, as in 1812 and 1942.

In Bulgaria and Romania especially,

tension builds up because the West

offers fracking, which they don't

want, and Russia offers dependence

on Russian natural gas.  So, what

decides on economic policy?

Peter Fend