@article{article_1735, title={THE PROBLEM OF THE EU IN REACHING AND MAINTAINING A COMMON POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS}, journal={Marmara Üniversitesi Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={8}, pages={129–154}, year={2000}, DOI={10.29228/mjes.292}, author={Özer, Yonca}, keywords={-, EU, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, ECONOMIC}, abstract={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p> <span>Common international trade policy </span> <span>of </span> <span>the European Union has suffered delays and difficulties due to the diversified commercial interests and individual trade policies of the Member States. </span> <span>Reaching </span> <span>and maintaining a common position in international trade negotiations has therefore proved to be a cumbersome procedure for the Community institutions, especially in the recent example o f the Uruguay Round o f the General Agreement o f Tariffs and Trade (GATT). </span> </p> <p> <span>This work examines the way the EU can reach and maintain, in the most successful way, internal cohesion within the Community, so that a common trade policy can be exercised against third countries by overcoming </span> <span>the </span> <span>detrimental effects ofgeographical, economic and social diversity ofthe Member States. </span> </p> <p> <span>The theoretical approach adopted in the analysis ofthe subject is the two- level bargaining model which depends on the interaction between the international institutional level and the domestic level </span> <span>, </span> <span>taking into account both the Member States as central players, as well as the initiatives ofthe EU institutions and the intergovernmental bargaining between the Member States.  </span> </p> </div> </div> </div>}, number={1&2}, publisher={Marmara Üniversitesi}