An assessment of the current political status of East Germany, unification with West Germany and absorption of the GDR, therefore, within the European Community is given. The problems of the differences between the Eastern and Western European economies are stressed, particularly with reference...

In the light of the recent political upheaval in Eastern Europe a comparison is made between the types of economic and political union to be found in the USSR and those at present being proposed for the member states of the European Community. The concept is taken further by envisaging the...