Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Europe: history's has been

It's funny how fast the spin wheel turns. I haven't even progressed beyond the prologue of TR Reid's The United States of Europeand both the book and I are behind the time.

Witness: Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Europe: history's has been

Also interesting: In Googling the book to get the year of publication (2004), I came across a review of it here. Stanley Hoffman of Foreign Affairs writes in March/April 2005:

"He [Reid] also says too little about the problems of expansion and the difficulties that an almost 30-member EU will face in trying to define a common foreign policy capable of influencing or challenging U.S. supremacy. Further integration is likely to create a domestic backlash that goes beyond mere "Euro-skepticism"; the portrait painted by Reid, however, has no shadows."

I'm gonna read it anyway and see for myself.