Abstract
At the end of the 1980s, the EC was on the eve of a crucial new step in its development—broadening its political and economic substance.1 Mikhail Gorbachev’s accession to the position of general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, accompanied by the beginning of a reform process within the Soviet Union and the entire Soviet bloc, produced a period of detente between the two cold war camps that was especially pronounced in Europe. Gorbachev’s proposal to create a “Common European Home,”2 though it was met with reluctance in Brussels and the major European capitals, sparked a new debate on the future of the EC in the framework of the changes occurring in the Soviet bloc.
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