ABSTRACT
The momentous combination of perestroika in the East and the planned Single Common Market in the West offers a unique opportunity to the European Community (EC) to become one of the pillars in the building of a unified Europe. Implementation of the ambitious Single European Market will involve the transfer of many national competences to the EC authorities. The European Political Cooperation provision calls for discussion of the "political and economic aspects of security" on a continuous basis. The Community has ceased to be just a bastion of the West in its ongoing contentions with the East, but has become an important economic and political mainstay of a stable European order. The Commission knows that it had to accept the member countries' decision that Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls belongs under their national control. The Commission became an actor alongside the bilateral activities of the member states.
