西欧与苏联东欧经济合作的新发展

New Development in West European Economic Cooperation with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

去年以来,在国际关系持续缓和、欧洲形势发生重大变化的情况下,西欧国家与苏联东欧国家的经济合作关系进入了一个全面发展的新阶段。本文着重对其发展情况、特点和趋势作一初步的浅析。

The current West European economic relations with the USSR andEastern Europe have entered a new period of overall cooperation.The main signs are asfollows:first,West European countries and the USSR and East European countries havereached various multilateral and bilateral agreements in economy,trade and scientific-technological cooperation,which are more preferential than before;second,West Euro-pean countries are pushing for joint ventures in the USSR and East European countries;third,West European countries are aetively providing economic aid to East Europeancountries;and fourth,Western Europe is for the first time rescheduling the debt ofEast European countries.The present developments show that East-West European cco-nomic relations are characteristic of:diversified economic cooperation and rapid develop- ment of joint ventures;West European countries' increased collective coordination in de-veloping their economic relations with the USSR and East European countries;WesternEurope's priority to Pand and Hungary in its development of economic relations withEastern Europe,while West Germany and France playing a leading role;and the pre-sence of various difficulties in their economic cooperation.Judging by the generaltrends,the prospects for East-West economic cooperation in a long-term period are ex-pected to be:(1)The economic cooperation will further increase and expand;(2)Theeconomic cooperation between West and the USSR and Eastern Europe will help theformation and development of the European Economic Zone;(3)The majority ofEast European countries are not probable to become members of the EEC,but,they arelikely to become gradually associate countries of the EEC;(4)East Germany will bethe first to be admitted into thc EEC.