Dispute as to the need for any thoroughgoing reform of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance flared up all over again at its 44th Congress in Prague in July 1988. The Soviet Union has now placed itself at the head of the movement for reform but the problems to be faced are considerable and...

The countdown to the realisation of the Single European Market at the end of 1992 is taking place parallel to drastic political and economic changes in Eastern Europe Both of these processes will affect relations between the EC and the CMEA countries The following article analyses the possible...

After a phase of stagnation in East-West trade lasting several years, both sides have more recently been at pains to intensify economic relations between East and West, the reasons being both economic and political. What part can the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) play in this regard?