European construction is a match with three players

The Italian diplomat Ferdinando Salleo ponders the project of a mini treaty intended to replace the Rome Treaty. "We owe the institutional compromise found in Brussels to the entente between Germany, France and England ... . As far as the contents is concerned, there is a balance of different attitudes towards the EU: integrationist, sovereign and minimalist." Salleo considers that in the economic or commercial domain, "Europe remains a recipient for diverse and divergent orientations that will be difficult to combine... . Even in foreign policy the gap between the three countries is far from harmless in terms of conceptions of strategy and traditional alliances. The danger is obvious: an 'executive board of contradictions' could become a 'Chamber of compensations' for specific interests ... at the expense of a common project carrying an economic force and western, democratic and humanist values."

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