Public debt in Europe has risen continuously over the last two decades. How is the transition to European Economic and Monetary Union, with the increasing economic interdependence between individual member states which it involves, likely to affect this situation? Which policy issues are of...

Over the past two decades Latin America, due to both political and economic considerations, has been endeavouring to establish intensive cooperative relations with the European Community. For a variety of reasons this objective has so far only been achieved in part. The Falklands/Malvinas...

The EC internal market is to be completed by the end of 1992, the creation of a European Economic Space comprising the 18 countries of the EC and EFTA is underway, and the countries of Eastern Europe, above all the USSR, are talking more and more about a "European house" from the Urals to the...

After the European Community’s agreement with the Maghreb countries and the Lomé Convention the trump cards have been played in the game of the EC's Mediterranean policy in the traditional sense. A new game is starting now, and the distribution of the cards is different.

Compared with the issues of economic and monetary policy the EEC Treaty says little about a common cyclical policy, and no great advances have been made towards such a policy since the Treaty of Rome was drafted. Which impediments are holding up progress in this direction?

The EC Council of Ministers seems to have made up its mind to admit Greece to the Community. If so, the accession of the other South European countries willing to join - Spain, Portugal and Turkey - is merely a question of time. What are the implications of such an enlargement of the EC for the...

With its association with the EC in July 1977, EFTA will have achieved its immediate goal of bridging the economic division of Western Europe. Moreover, the influence of this small but efficient international organization - which due to its pragmatism and liberal principles fits quite well into...

Turkey once chose the road into the EC of its own free will. This decision was consistent with its European orientation since the days of Atatürk. The association with the EC and the prospect of full membership are nevertheless attracting much criticism in Turkey today. Therefore it is...