LONDON -- The odd situation seems to have been reached where the most dedicated enthusiasts for European unity fear that their dream is falling apart, while the skeptics fear that unity and integration are pushing Europe ahead faster than ever toward a super state.
They cannot, of course, both be right. And yet at the recent European Union summit at Laeken, Belgium, both views were expressed with great vigor.
The "integrators," led by the European Commission and the smaller EU members, are nervous that power is slipping away from the central EU institutions and that momentum toward a truly united Europe is being lost.