ABSTRACT
This chapter debates on British entry into the European Community. In the end a compromise was arranged which recognized the individual status of each government signing and also registered the fact that the chairman of the Council of Ministers had some kind of status in the act. It indicates the extent to which the detailed operation of the Community powers is today being jealously observed and controlled by the member governments. This is no European melting-pot. Indeed, most of the time it looks more like a bag of marbles. As the Community has become engaged in the management of private power whose reach extends beyond the limits of the nation-state, its technocratic character has been reinforced. The amalgam of private groups and agencies transcending national frontiers, together with the official political agencies that have been established in and around the European Community, 'supranational'.
