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...

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...

The image of the European Communities has lost some of its glamour as should be stated bluntly in any attempt to present a fair view of the state and prospects of the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community - the three...

The squabbles in the European Community have made the headlines in the last few months. Wide-spread is the impression that the EC is laboriously threading its way from compromise to compromise without evolving proper longer-lasting solutions for its problems. The community is adrift. Where will...

The European Community will be enlarged in the next few years by the accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain. Which will be the consequences for the labour market of the EC and the Federal Republic of Germany in particular?

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.