THE CONFERENCE ON ‘THE EUROPEAN ALTERNATIVE’ ORGANIZED BY THE Research Committee on European Unification of the International Political Science Association, in collaboration with the European Commission and the Europcan Parliament, was held on 9, 10 and 11 June at the headquarters of the European Commission. It was attended by high oficials of the European Commission and Parliamcnt, the rapporteurs, and by tcams from ten Western universities, the contre-rapporteurs. Indeed, one of the original characteristics of the Conference, and of the work which it produced, was that for the first time the experts of the European Commission and the European Parliament put forward, in a joint research, their views on the problems with which they deal officially. These views have been analysed by experts from European universities working on the same project. The fact that the Conference was able, in each case and in general, to reach harmonious common conclusions is highly significant.