By Simon Serfaty
"Nineteen seventy-three," declared Henry Kissinger in late April of that year, "is the year of Europe"— a time, he insisted, for the allies to join in "a fresh act of creation . . . equal to that undertaken by the postwar generation of leaders" on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, in 2008 — the thirty-fifth year of "the year of Europe"—conditions seem to be broadly met, at last, for an answer from the European states and their Union.