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THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS THE CHANGES IN THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WHICH ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR WHEN THE MEMBERS OF TEH MEMBERS OF THE PARLIAMENT ARE DIRECTLY ELECTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1978. ALTHOUGH PALMER FORESEES THE COMMISSION REMAINING THE PRIMARY INITIATOR OF POLICY, HE DOES SEE SOME INCREASED POLICY ROLE FOR THE PARLIAMENT AS FAIRLY LIKELY.

THE NINE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES COULD START INROADS OF COOPERATION BY MAKING THEIR POLITICAL CO-OPERATION PROCEDURE OPEN-ENDED TO ENABLE THEM TO CONSULT ALLIED COUNTRIES AND ORGANIZATIONS WHEN PREPARING TO FACE COMPLEX CHALLENGES SUCH AS A POSSIBLE EEC TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH COMECON.

MOST FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE TREATIES OF PARIS AND ROME HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY TWO BODIES WHOSE ESTABLISHMENT WAS NOT FORESEEN UNDER THE TREATIES - THE COMMITTEE OF PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES AND THE HEADS OF GOVERNMENT. THIS DEVELOPMENT MAY BE USEFUL, EVEN ESSENTIAL, BUT IT RAISES QUESTIONS OF POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND CONTROL.

HOW THE CITY, THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY, MAY ASK ITS CITIZENS TO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR THE SAKE OF ITS PRESERVATION HAS PLAGUED US SINCE THE BIRTH OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THUCYDIDES' PRESENTATION OF PERICLES' ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM BY RECONCILING THE HIGHEST GOOD OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GOOD OF THE CITY BY MEANS OF THE LOVE OF GLORY. THE AUTHOR CONTRASTS THE CENTRAL THEMES OF PERICLES' SPEECHES IN THUCYDIDES, ESPECIALLY HIS RENOWNED FUNERAL ORATION, WITH OTHER PARTS OF THUCYDIDES' PRESENTATION OF PERICLEAN ATHENS, IN PARTICULAR HIS FAMOUS ACCOUNT OF THE PLAGUE, TO DEMONSTRATE HIS DOUBTS ABOUT THE EFFICACY OF THE PERICLEAN SOLUTION TO THE POLITICAL PROBLEM.