The Economist (US), January 21st, 1989
EUROPEANS
HERE is a pleasing antidote to the European talk of the times: talk of disembodied concepts such as European Union, a European Space, a European Central Bank and "1992". Jane Kramer barely mentions these topical abstractions. Her collection of essays for the New Yorker magazine dwells mainly upon the oddities of the countries that are tinkering with these designs. Margaret Thatcher can take heart: the oddities are so ingrained that the task of building a United States of Europe is doomed to take a century. Mrs Thatcher can also despair; for these foibles will shrug aside her logic...
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