Common Market: Eurocrats, Unite!

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The Eurocrats, that new breed of international civil servants employed by the Common Market, are dedicated men. In the interests of efficiency, they are pushing for a merger of the Market's three separate governing organizations —the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the Atomic Energy Community. They have also prepared voluminous reports about Western Europe's growing inflation, with its soaring prices and wages. One result: the 7,000 Eurocrats, who are now unionized, are demanding an 8% pay raise of their own. Last week, after the Common Market offered only 2%, the Eurocrats threatened to go out on strike.