Seattle's inner city was a place where racial integration had evolved naturally and comfortably.

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One concerned the future shape of the Union, and whether an inner core of countries could race ahead to ever-tighter integration, perhaps even presaging a federal superstate.

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His inner columnist enjoys lampooning the absurdities of Brussels bureaucracy and scorning dreams of further European integration.

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Occasionally, the three Benelux countries have tried, without much success, to speed up integration within the European Union by turning themselves into an ever tighter, more dynamic inner core.

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