The Role of Governments in Fostering East-West Economic Cooperation

Abstract

The fast and growing diversification of both political and economic institutions and legislation in the East and the membership or non-membership of Western countries in the EC makes it difficult to formulate a general recipe for both groups of countries today, and even more in the mid-1990s. With these two kinds of differentiations every government’s “first port of call” is, to a varying degree, different. Beyond this reality there is also a psychological factor. Just as every single person wishes to be treated as an individual, so does every nation wish to be treated as an individual, unique entity.