ABSTRACT
The foreign policy concepts of the East Central European countries have been in a process of constant readjustment since 1989, a process that is going on and the outcome of which is far from certain. There were serious and even furious debates in some of the countries about who should be entitled to formulate foreign policy concepts and who should be the cadres to implement them. These debates seriously hampered speedy and cohesive work on a new foreign policy orientation. The East Central European countries have achieved remarkable results in restructuring the region by concluding a network of bilateral treaties, both among themselves and with the dominant powers in the region — Germany and Russia. All the measures have to be taken speedily and seriously in order to stabilize the economic and thereby also the political situation in Eastern Europe.
