The economic integrations in Europe - some present data and perspectives

Abstract

In a time of global and planetary strategies by great powers or groups of  nations, separated by deep antagonisms, which economic-political space is open to the peripheric countries in the southern Europe? There are, as it is well known, two great processes of economic integration current in Europe: one around the capitalist Common Market countries, the other within the scope of the socialist Comecon countries. The southern Europe countries are more or less orientated towards the economic integration with the European capitalisms. According to these terms, it seems that the majority, if not the totality, of those countries are destined for accepting the function that the «international division of work», under a capitalist pattern, may impose upon them. Nevertheless a narrow but real political space is offered to the action of those more progressive forces placed in that region: on one side a certain containment as to the North-American imperialism within what the capitalist Europe intends to keep as a «game-preserver» for the future economic growth in the area; on the other side, the probable approximation East-West, that will turn the southern Europe into a privileged field for the competition between the two systems and will allow certain spaces of autonomy to the countries that will aim at such a target with enough determination and cunning.