In fact, the preconditions for intra-regional cooperation – up to partial integration of the interests of the countries involved – look more auspicious than they did in Western Europe in the early 1950’s. Europe had neither a common language, nor was it as religiously and culturally as homogeneous as the Middle East.
事实上，区域内合作的先决条件-参与的国家的利益部分一体化-看起来更比五十年代初的西欧更加成熟和有希望。那时的欧洲既没有共同语言也不如中东在宗教和文化上那样具有同质性。