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What if France had opted to go its own way following WW2 (let's say the US tells them to buzz off in Asia and makes French Indochina Independent) and the EEC was formed along a UK-Germany alignment rather than a Franco-German one.

The big knock-on I can think of is less agricultural protectionism and more focus on international trade. There'd be more focus on economic integration and less on the political methinks.
Denmark and Norway would join earlier as well. Ireland may too, or maybe they cozy up to France to get away from UK-dominance.
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