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Development aid

1967, Intereconomics

Abstract

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Key takeaways

  • Marshall Plan aid was an important basis for European reconstruction, and in Germany, in particular, it helped to overcome the feeling of hopelessness which made people doubt whether the damage caused by the war ever would be repaired.
  • At the same time, however, initiative and political activity are threatening to pass increasingly to the Communists, whose influence in Europe was to be effectively restricted not least by the Marshall Plan.
  • The Germans persistantly insisted that the existing imbalance between Federal Germany's contribution to the EEC Development Fund (34 %) and orders to German firms which were financed from this (9.1%) must be corrected.
  • Foreign firms are to be given additional incentives.
  • However, the development of West Germany's foreign trade with the Chinese People's Republic shows that this type of trade agreement is by no means a conditio sine qua non for trade width an Eastern bloc country.