31.  Nearly every African country was the vassal of some European imperial state.

32.  Of course, this emergence in outline of a supranational European state is alarming many people.

33.  Past devaluations and revaluations have been important means of adjustment and correction of the differences between European states.

34.  Russia also failed to inform other European states of its troop movements into Chechnya, in violation of a treaty designed to promote security.

35.  Schmidt said it was nonsense to think that a common currency would fail without a federal European state.

36.  Second, repression in Kosovo had a significant impact on other European states long before the recent violence started.

37.  Seven years after the end of the war in Bosnia, the country has far to go to build the institutions of a successful European state.

38.  Spain is fighting to maintain generous aid payments it receives from the EU even after the much poorer central European states join the EU.

39.  So, whether the new currency will lead to a European federal state or accentuate European national differences instead remains to be seen.

40.  Such arrangements make it easier for the European Union to build a united region of European states.