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In this school map-style maps, you can see the Europe of my planned TL, 'Grâce aux rapporteurs' (although the title has been discarded I still don't have a new one), in which due to a series of minor changes (a MRP more confident in Pinay's govt., Stalin dying a three-four months later, no arrest of Jacques Duclos), the EDC treaty is ratified early in around April 1953 and later the EPC is too, resulting in an early federal Europe.

Thanks to economies of scale, the Inner Six are wealthier than OTL, although not by more than 5%-10%, because well, I'm basing myself on what happened OTL in the 90s with the Single Market. Other minor changes, I might make to this map when I read more about Portugal might be an early democratic Portugal, but we'll see.

Other minor TTL differences are that France is a parliamentary republic (the Fourth never crashed down and survived through some constitutional amendments that increased the stability and power of the executive vis-a-vis the legislative) and that, therefore, without De Gaulle, the NATO headquarters never moved to Brussels from Paris. Also, all the European Community institutions, except for the High Authority for Coal and Steel are in Strasbourg.

As for other things, well I couldn't find GDP per capita data for OTL 1973 so i sort of extrapolated the 1989 data so it might be inaccurate. Also, since I used 1973 data but not at constant prices of 2000, the numbers of the GDP per capita might be a bit inflated due to the high inflation the American economy suffered in 1973. In any case, the two wealthiest members of the Community were at the time the Netherlands (1) and France (2), although the Dutch would suffer OTL (and probably TTL to a lesser degree) from the Dutch disease from the discovery of natural gas in Groningen.

NOTE: The previous European Community map is now outdated, mostly because after considerable research and talking to people more knowledgeable than myself, since I came to the conclusion that some of things shown there are rather unrealistic.

Description
In this school map-style maps, you can see the Europe of my planned TL, 'Grâce aux rapporteurs' (although the title has been discarded I still don't have a new one), in which due to a series of minor changes (a MRP more confident in Pinay's govt., Stalin dying a three-four months later, no arrest of Jacques Duclos), the EDC treaty is ratified early in around April 1953 and later the EPC is too, resulting in an early federal Europe.

Thanks to economies of scale, the Inner Six are wealthier than OTL, although not by more than 5%-10%, because well, I'm basing myself on what happened OTL in the 90s with the Single Market. Other minor changes, I might make to this map when I read more about Portugal might be an early democratic Portugal, but we'll see.

Other minor TTL differences are that France is a parliamentary republic (the Fourth never crashed down and survived through some constitutional amendments that increased the stability and power of the executive vis-a-vis the legislative) and that, therefore, without De Gaulle, the NATO headquarters never moved to Brussels from Paris. Also, all the European Community institutions, except for the High Authority for Coal and Steel are in Strasbourg.

As for other things, well I couldn't find GDP per capita data for OTL 1973 so i sort of extrapolated the 1989 data so it might be inaccurate. Also, since I used 1973 data but not at constant prices of 2000, the numbers of the GDP per capita might be a bit inflated due to the high inflation the American economy suffered in 1973. In any case, the two wealthiest members of the Community were at the time the Netherlands (1) and France (2), although the Dutch would suffer OTL (and probably TTL to a lesser degree) from the Dutch disease from the discovery of natural gas in Groningen.

NOTE: The previous European Community map is now outdated, mostly because after considerable research and talking to people more knowledgeable than myself, since I came to the conclusion that some of things shown there are rather unrealistic.