TITLE

The question mark at Europe's heart

AUTHOR(S)

Trewhitt, H.

PUB. DATE

December 1991

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;12/9/91, Vol. 111 Issue 24, p50

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses how successful German unification will strengthen a united Europe as well as Germany's European leadership, but that failure could jeopardize the pending economic integration of the European Community and the prospects for future political union. Results of unification are mixed, after more than a year; The rising costs of unity; Unemployment is the cutting edge of crisis; Dependence on the Treuhandanstalt (Trustee Agency); Effects of the end of the cold war.

ACCESSION #

9112092186

 

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