Partnership and cooperation agreements between the European Union and the new independent states of the ex-Soviet union

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 399-420

  Hillion, Christophe ^a  

^a European Interdisciplinary Studies Department   (Poland)

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EID: 84937267601     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eerr1998027     Document Type: Article

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