La politique commerciale commune européenne, les tensions mondiales des années 1970 et la détente française en Roumanie: des dynamiques aux effets contradictoires?

Abstract

The policy of trade liberalization led by the EEC and by France towards a state-trading country like Romania proved to be a specific issue with regard to the implementation of the European common trade policy. It was all the more complicated than the economic environment worsened from 1973 onwards and that protectionist measures became a more and more accurate danger. As a consequence, the goals of Romania, those of the European Commission and those of France interacted with each other in a complicated way. Moreover, that interaction evolved over the years as the French policy itself evolved regarding the processes it supported, namely the European construction in the West and the Détente towards the East. French diplomacy changed indeed in accordance with the new frame that was put in place inside the EEC. It was however confronted with several discrepancies between those two processes it wanted to link together.