The European flag-carriers
If you want to find the agents of European integration, and they are not all found in Brussels. The Economist, for example, suggests that “Stelios Haji-Ioannou and Michael O’Leary, the two pioneers of Europe’s low-cost airlines, have done more to integrate Europe than any numbers of diplomats and ministers.” [ADDED 14.1.2006]
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