What Europe for What Great Britain? by Françoise de La Serre The importance of the Brussels Agreement of May 30, 1980 cannot be summed up as an exchange of concessions which ended the crisis of the British contribution to the EEC budget. We must also consider the fact that the concessions which the United Kingdom obtained have profoundly modified the nature of the Community. In thinking about the future evolution of the EEC, we must ask ourselves "what Europe can be built with Great Britain"? "Less Europe" might mean the disintegration of the present Community and its conversion into a huge free trade area, but it might also mean any of several variations on the theme of an unequally developed Europe, isolating Great Britain from certain C...