Abstract
This article discusses the consequences for developing countries of the recent changes in Europe. The EEC's 1992 project and the dramatic developments in Eastern Europe have in combination made the impression that dramatic and far-reaching changes are underway in the EEC's economic relations with developing countries. While this may be true for individual countries and for particular economic sectors, it is argued on the basis of a review of past trends that the direct economic effects are likely to be of relatively minor importance. More important will be the trend towards a stronger political management of the economic relations. The EEC is likely to join with other international efforts aiming at an increase in the level of "conditionality" in connection with the economic relations, thus further restricting the range of strategies available for developing countries.
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