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The 1992 Challenge From Europe: Development Of The European Community's Internal Market

Michael Calingaert
Reviewed by By William Diebold, Jr.
Spring 1989
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Michael Calingaert
National Planning Association
1988
148 pp.
$15.00

The European Community's program for "completing the internal market," the obstacles to it and the way American interests might be affected are all succinctly set forth in this very timely, useful book. Mr. Calingaert, a U.S. Foreign Service officer on leave, also provides well-reasoned estimates of what is likely to happen in each field.

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