Abstract
The CMEA and the EC Challenge Th e article analyses how in the early 1970s two European economic organisations - the EC and the CMEA - attempted to formulate a common foreign trade policy vis-a-vis one another. Ever since its inception, the EC had worked towards establishing a customs union and implementing a common commercial policy, whereas the CMEA Charter initially focused solely on internal economic cooperation within the socialist bloc. It was thus only in the early 1970s, in response to the expansion and consolidation of the EC, that discussions on a common foreign trade policy commenced within the CMEA. Th e two organisations began protracted discussions on how to organise their mutual relations, but it is argued that neither party was able to reach its goals. Up until the late 1980s, the CMEA and the EC had no formal relations and trade agreements, and, as a result, both parties had to compromise in order to keep trade agreements between them from collapsing.
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