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Implications of the EC internal market for relations with Eastern Europe

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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 consequences.

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Bolz, K. Implications of the EC internal market for relations with Eastern Europe. Intereconomics 25, 36–44 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924758

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