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Group struggles to close hi-tech gap with U.S.ROBERT BURNS_Associated PressBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Common Market is entering a new era, poised for important change as it widens its borders for the first time in five years.On New Year’s l)av Snain and^ UllAi i ii4 uliiii V4 iMm1 04 U4.A As\ rv^ V\ nV4 4in ^ A rvn * Aalliance that already was the largest in the world.With its new lineup the Common Market encompasses 320 million people, accounts for more than one-fifth of world trade and is nearly equal the United States, at least potentially, in economic might.This is the third time the Common Market, officially called the European Economic Community, has extended its reach since France, Italy, West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg signed the Treaty of Rome that established the EEC in March 1957.Now. as then, a chief reasonfor forging these links is to solidify democracy on a continent whose history is spotted with dictatorships and political rivalries that triggered centuries of war.Jacques Delors, the chief executive of the Common Market’s Brussels bureaucracy, underscored this at the ceremony inSee EEC, 3C
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