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The United States dislikes the idea not only because it feels confident about its superior economic power; its people are also preoccupied with internal matters and many of them rernain sceptical even about NAFTA, the free-trade area linking the US to Canada and Mexico And the West Europeans are busily preparing the next and difficult round of stream1ining the operations ot the European Union, a necessary step before it can open itself to Central and East European states.