MOR - EEC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90G01353R001700020012-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 13, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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13 July 19sa
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: -1992
1. In an energetic, feisty and even assertive presentation before a
luncheon. audience gathered by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation today, Karl-Heinz
Narjes, Vice President of the European Commission, gave a positive and upbeat
account of what the EEC has accomplished and will do.
- Political unity has been written into the EEC Constitution as a
specific goal.
- Over the past fifteen years there has been agreement on harmonizing
customs, the monetary system, standards and the Court of Justice.
- Now there is convergence of economic policies. The Commission wil
face most of the 300 odd decisions which will be needed to make the common
market a reality this year.
- There will be a need to harmonize taxes.
- 1992 has become a stimulus for economic activity.
- The EC is now the largest market in the world. It is export
oriented and hence free trade.
- The European House concept implies a Soviet droit de regard over
Europe; this is not in Europe's interst and wholly unacceptable..
-The common market does not exclude arms production, though there are
special factors which will make its achievement difficult.
- As long as the U.S. subsidizes its farmers at twice the per capita
rate as the EEC, there will be serious trade troubles.
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SUBJECT: 1992
2. The picture Narjes painted was optimistic - " we have things under
control". It gave clear outlines of things to come and evidence of a
willingness and capacity to get there. But the feistiness turned to
assertiveness when it came to defining the terms on which the EEC would handle
its relations with the U.S. and Japan. If that is the shape of things to come
we will see an increasingly unified but also increasingly difficult Europe.
Marte an Het]ven
National I elligence Officer
for Europe
cc: DDCI
C/NIC
NIO/ECON
ANIO/EUR
EURA
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