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Is Britain still the awkward partner in Europe? Count words: 1655 In 2003, thirty years after Britain became a membership of the European Communities, it is still considered as Europe's "awkward partner". Where does it come from? European communities were created because the founding fathers of the union believed that integrating European countries' economies would link them in order to preserve peace between them and that this economic integration would one day lead to political integration. The other objective was to create a huge European market which would match the American one in size and scale. In 1950, Robert Schuman proposed the pooling of French and West German supplies of coal and steal, and invited the other European states that whished to associate themselves to the experiment. But Britain was yet involved in the formation of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). And...

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