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Since the late 1980s, the Community/Union has formulated and implemented a common, consistent policy towards Eastern Europe. The member states and EC institutions agreed that the principal objective is to support the economic and political transformation in Eastern Europe and thus ensure security. To reach this objective, they agreed on several important decisions (most importantly on enlargement), held to them and mobilized a variety of different national and collective resources.
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See Heinz Kramer, ‘The European Community’s Response to the “New Eastern Europe”’, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, June 1993, p. 234.
Simon Nuttall, ‘The Commission and Foreign Policy-Making’, in Geoffrey Edwards and David Spence, eds, The European Commission (Harlow: Longman, 1994), p. 294.
See Peter Ludlow, ‘The European Commission’, in Keohane and Hoffmann, eds, The New European Community, pp. 116–21 and Grant, Delors, pp. 278–84.
Sarah Helm, ‘Eastern Expansion Sparks Row’, The Independent, 16 December 1995.
Secretary Baker, ‘A New Europe, A New Atlanticism: Architecture for a New Era’, address to Berlin Press Club, 12 December 1989, US Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C.
See Buzan, et al., European Security, p. 129; Stark, ‘L’Est de 1’Europe’; and Romer and Schreiber, ‘La France’.
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Smith, K.E. (2004). Explaining the Making of a Foreign Policy Towards Eastern Europe. In: The Making of EU Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230536784_8
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