We follow the multi-dimensional approach to socio-economic sustainability and distinguish among the needs of society in the four dimensions that make up the basic pillars in our model. Thus, we focus on the sustainable development of the economy, society, environment and institutions.

The Council of Ministers of the European CommunIties decided on March 30, 1971, to put into effect on July 1, 1971, a system of general tariff preferences favouring the exports of manufactures and semimanufactures from developing countries. By taking this decision the European Communities have...

On July 27,1971, the Commission of the European Communities has submitted a memorandum on a Joint European development policy to the governments of the EEC's member states. It has thereby called for a beginning of the discussion on cooperative action by the Communities also in the field of...

Whereas in 1970 most of the large EC countries were still recording real growth rates in excess of 5%, after the two oil crises there was an appreciable slowdown in economic expansion and at the beginning of the eighties even a real contraction. At the same time unemployment increased...

The Lomé Convention with its 63 signatory states in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) represents the centre-piece of the EC's development policy. The current agreement, Lomé II, expires on February 28, 1985, and negotiations on Lomé III already began in Luxembourg on October 6,...

The European Community has frequently been blamed for impairing, through its highly protectionist agricultural policy, the development chances of Third World countries. Our article analyses whether, and to what extent, this reproach is justified.

The foreign trade policies of the industrialized countries have become increasingly complex. The states in question do not apply uniform policies to all other countries but operate different arrangements for different groups of countries. The divergencies can be easily adduced as evidence in...