Suchergebnisse

European Community (EC) development cooperation is regionally diversified to ACP (African, Caribbean, Pacific), Mediterranean, & nonassociated countries in Latin America & Asia. Emphasis here is on ACP-countries who have signed the Lome-convention, analyzing its contents & effects on Third World countries -- especially the new measures of Lome IV. EC trade policy gives somewhat preferential treatment to developing countries, but only as long as European interests are not concerned. Three examples (textiles, bananas, & toys) show that the proposed 1992 Single European Market (SEM) could turn out to be a "fortress" against the Third World. EC agricultural policy also harms the Third World, by food aid, subsidies on agricultural exports, & high demand for animal feed. The tendency of the SEM is to intensify processes of concentration & centralization of capital. Western companies & banks are at least partially to blame for the Third World debt crisis. However, the EC -- contrary to its economic power & responsibility -- hardly engages in debt management or reduction. The shift of Western economic interests toward the East will certainly affect the South: the German-Polish border will either become a border between the First & Third World or the East will participate in the exploitation of the South. Seen from the angle of development policy, Austria should not become a member of the EC as it is (& as is the intention of the government): by doing so, Austria would join in a development policy where one hand takes more than the other one gives. AA