We believe that the process of European unification can continue at citizen level when it has been slowed down at institutional level.

Other European officials, however, pressed to get the process of European unification back on track by ending the currency crisis.

"NATO enabled the process of European unification to go ahead at that speed.

We can only maintain or even regain agreement to the process of European unification at various levels if people actually know what each level is responsible for doing!

The development of transport TENs is obviously a key element in the process of European unification.

And only when the peoples of these states enjoy the rule of law will they be able to partake fully in the process of European unification.

Against the background of the history of the European nations, the process of European unification over the last 46 years has been a unique success story.

We stress very emphatically that confidence in the stability of the European currency is the basis for the confidence of Europeans among themselves and in the process of European unification.

From experience with this operation it may then perhaps be possible using this method at some point, in the interests of the citizen, to lay down the main cornerstones of the process of European unification.

During the process of European unification, Germany and France forged a strong relationship, ending the long-standing French-German enmity, which had peaked during and after the First World War.

At a press conference in Bonn on July 17 Kohl emphasised Germany's continuing commitment to the process of European unification, which had to develop alongside the process of German unification.

In any case, the whole process of European unification and cooperation between the peoples of Europe is something far greater than that, and bears no relation to the public conception of how much it all costs.

Let me ask the Presidency's representatives to inform their colleagues that we will not allow the process of European unification to be wrecked by tax inspectors scrutinising certain aspects of the administration of power.

To an extent, this view was shared in Europe, but the process of European unification created its own stresses under which the Kennedy Round at times became a secondary focus for the EEC.

I am one of those who believe that these are the foundations, the cultural foundations of Europe, and can act as a secure, stabilising factor for further dynamic support for the process of European unification.

But the Prime Minister said he would continue those policies if his New Democracy Party was returned to office since it was the only course to economic recovery and a full role in the process of European unification.

Buruma's meditation is prompted by the process of European unification, which represents the extension of many British ideals - stable democratic institutions and free trade - and yet, also, potentially the end of British uniqueness.

The province of Limburg is not an impverished region, as was feared at the time, but has emerged as a prosperous region, with excellent prospects for the future, particularly in view of the process of European unification.

He called on East Germany to accept the reforms under way in the Soviet Union, Poland and Hungary, saying that the two German states should work together to support what he termed "the process of European unification."

Mr. de Villepin identified three areas of agreement with Britain: the future reconstruction of Iraq through the United Nations, moving forward urgently on the "road map" for an Israeli-Palestinian peace and the continued process of European unification.

The internal market and competition policy are two cornerstones of the process of European unification which aim not only at strengthening the European Union's economy and its businesses but, above all, at realising the fundamental freedoms of the Union.

The current system of treaty revision also needs to be reviewed as soon as possible, escaping the narrow intergovernmental focus and thus reducing the democratic deficit and involving the citizens more directly, through their elected representatives, in the process of European unification.

I am for a process that will certainly lead to a unification of Europe some day, and in this framework of European unity the Germans will have their place, but I am utterly against a special German solution before such a process of European unification is completed," he said.

This is an area in all its variety and complexity which is one of the most European of our policies. It enables us to break down the borders which the citizens should not even regard as being borders and to make real progress with the process of European unification and integration.

The British action came as Prime Minister Major and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, prepared for a debate in the House of Commons on Thursday about the abrupt shift in British economic policy and about Britain's role in the faltering process of European unification.