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By Karen E. Smith

The Making of european overseas coverage argues that there was a typical eu Union (EU) international coverage in the direction of six nations of jap Europe - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia - and analyzes why the ecu has agreed to the coverage. the target of the EU's coverage is to help the transformation of jap Europe and therefore confirm safety and balance. an important software that the european has used to arrive this aim has been the possibility of enlargement.

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On that occasion, the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, declared that it was time ‘to organise mutually advantageous relations between (the CMEA and the EEC) in economic matters. ’52 In June 1985, the CMEA Secretary Vyacheslav Sychov wrote to Commission President Delors proposing to establish official relations between the two organizations. The European Council, meeting in Relations Through 1988 33 Milan the same month, agreed that the Commission should explore the proposal. The Commission replied to the CMEA that it was willing to resume dialogue, but that the normalization53 of relations between the two organizations should occur alongside normalization of relations between the Community and the CMEA member states.

As Philippe de Schoutheete has noted, EPC brought a new ‘European’ dimension to the national foreign policy process. EPC multiplied the direct contacts between officials at different national levels. By constantly meeting and consulting with each other, officials acquired a ‘réflexe européen’, or coordination reflex. Whenever an international problem arose, officials would consider its ‘collective dimension’ and even adapt their initial position in accordance with those of the other member states. ’90 Michael E.

57 Talks on the CMEA’s proposal began in September 1986 and continued through 1988. 58 The EC, however, refused to budge from its position; West Berlin had to be acknowledged as being part of the Community. Only in May 1988 was the question settled in the EC’s favour. West Germany, which held the Council presidency during the first half of 1988, pushed hard for a solution so that the declaration could be signed by the end of its presidency. 59 The ‘Hungarian formula’ (so named because it was used in the 1978 EECHungary textiles agreement) would be adopted: without explicitly mentioning West Berlin, the declaration states that it applies in all areas where the EEC Treaty is valid.

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