to democracy otherwise they might be attracted to other spheres of influence. It was likely that countries like Hungary and Czechoslovakia would apply to become members of the EC by 2000.
Enlargement
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Mr Maude thought that the EC could have twenty members by the term of the century. It would be difficult to resist countries like Austria, Norway and Sweden. Mr Poos thought that we could have a number of accession demands on the table if the EFTA process was not successful. Mr Maude thought it more likely that the EFTA countries would see the EC/EFTA process as a half way stage. He cited the example of Switzerland. Mr Berns said that when the Swiss President Delamurez had been in Luxembourg recently, he had made it clear that if the price in EC/EFTA process was too high he would prefer to go a bit higher and apply for full membership. Mr Poos thought that Switzerland would be the last country of the EFTA Countries to apply to join the EC. Mr Maude considered that attitudes had changed in Switzerland; Felber was much more open about the possibility of Switzerland acceding to the EC. Mr Poos pointed out that Delamurez and Felber represented one side of Swiss mentality but we had to remember that the majority of the Cantons and the small villages were anti-European. They could change, but it would take some time.
German Unification
4. Mr Poos discerned a certain feeling of unease among ordinary people in Luxembourg about the speed of events in Germany. Luxembourg had been invaded twice; this had involved a high cost in human lives and suffering. There was a certain resentment about German unification. It would be important for politicians to explain that the new structure which was in the process of being created would prevent history repeating itself. It would be important to ensure that Germany was integrated fully into NATO and that the Americans were in control of what was happening militarily in Germany. Mr Maude agreed; he had detected a certain unhappiness at Parknasilla that the Germans were talking about state unity before the end of the year when it was obvious that they would not by then have worked out the arrangements for NATO, EC etc. The anxieties which existed before Christmas about the speed of unification had now re-emerged. Mr Poos said he did not think the Soviet attitude was as firm as it had been at the beginning of the unification process. This was perhaps because of the economic attitude which the EC was adopting towards the USSR. Gorbachev was looking for a signal that he was not excluded from the process of German unification and the Association agreements which the EC was signing with Eastern European countries. It was important to get the