Birth, childhood and adolescence -- The community at the end of the 1960s -- From the Hague to Paris: 1969-1972 -- A turbulent year: 1973 -- The mid-1970s: locust years -- 'Euro-sclerosis': the late 1970s and early 1980s -- The mid-1980s: 'single market' and 'single act' -- The late 1980s and the road to '1992' -- Europe transformed again: 1989-1993 -- Paradoxes of the new Europe: 1994-2000 -- The new millennium: 2000-2005 -- New turbulence: 2005-2008.