ABSTRACT
German policy in the Community has concentrated in the main on promoting economic integration by the removal of obstacles to the free movement of goods, capital and labour, by the development of a strict competition policy and by related measures of negative integration. As the 1970s gave way to the 1980s, the central paradox of the Federal Republics international position became clearer than ever. The Common Agricultural Policy had also, by the 1970s, proved to be advantageous to the Federal Republic. The Federal Republics role in the European Community, for instance, receives no attention apart from Josef Strausss passing suggestion that the SPD might be tempted to take Germany out of the EEC. Strauss, in contrast, asserts that the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is stirring up anti-American feelings in Germany, and that the SPDs Moscow faction is threatening to take the Federal Republic out of NATO.
