The United States and United Kingdom may be, as Churchill said, two countries separated by the same language. Equally, however, the United Kingdom may be the best window Americans have onto the deliberately opaque landscape of the European Community. Sitting here in London, spiritually closer to Boston than to Brussels, it is easy for me to conclude that the European debate on unification is like a foreign language movie to many Americans, one in which the subtitles were deleted on the trip over.
A version of this article appeared in the November–December 1992 issue of Harvard Business Review.
