Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against the backdrop of Ireland's longstanding neutrality in the East-West military confrontation, Gorbachev said it was time "to set our common European house in order," accept the realities of being divided into separate economic and military blocs and "play a key role in putting international relations on a new level...
...European process can only succeed if it involves all our European countries, and of course the United States and Canada. But we think we should proceed from the realities existing in the world: the existence of both the European Economic Community and [its East Bloc counterpart] Comecon, of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...Honecker and his elderly colleagues in the ruling Politburo have been able to fend off unpalatable reforms in large part because of huge subsidies from West Germany: some $1 billion a year in bank credits and other transfers. East Germany also profits from back-door access to the rich European Community market through West German middlemen. The special treatment reflects West Germans' strong emotional bond with their countrymen across the Berlin Wall -- and deep-seated hopes that the two Germanys may one day be reunited...
...wise course for the West is to overhaul its long-standing policy of "differentiation," which has meant, primarily, dealing with each East European country directly rather than through Moscow, and rewarding human- rights improvement with economic prizes like most-favored-nation trade status. But, says a Western diplomat in Vienna, "quite frankly, differentiation is a reactive policy, a cautious policy. It does not initiate and it is not crafted to take account of the complex issues that are now at stake...
...Administration would back Poland and Hungary with the International Monetary Fund, support extending trade waivers, increase high-level contacts and boost exchange programs. Ambassador Palmer recommends joint ventures and small loans directed to specific projects and placed with small commercial banks. He wants President Bush to make an East European tour...