Chapter 275 Cooperation between Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Just after the first Supreme Soviet election, the Supreme Soviets of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldavia successively submitted applications to withdraw from the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union felt helpless because the parties that ruled in these republics were no longer the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
According to Soviet laws, the franchise republics have the right to withdraw from the Soviet Union. The supreme Soviets of these countries naturally have the right to do so. Gorbachev and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union felt helpless. While these countries applied to withdraw from the Soviet Union, the Central Bank of Eastern Europe received requests from these countries to apply to join the unified market in Eastern Europe.
Since the Eastern European Central Bank obtained the right to issue currency and replaced the original central banks of various countries, severe inflation in Poland and other countries has finally been curbed. Due to the opening of borders and the abolition of tariffs, the entire Eastern European market has become even larger. Including the newly joined Bulgaria and Romania, in the Eastern European region, a total of 100 million people use the Eastern European euro guaranteed by the Bank of Colombia.
Poland's mineral resources were sold to the Czech Republic, and Czech mechanically processed products could enter the agriculturally developed Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria without tariffs. Romania's petrochemical products gradually opened up the market in these countries, while Poland's Gdansk and Romania's port throughput began to flourish again due to the huge market. All this shows that the plan to unify the market has led to positive and positive responses in the economies of participating countries.
The economic recovery finally made the governments of these countries feel relieved. At the same time, they also believe that the Eastern European Central Bank is the guarantee of economic development in the Eastern European region. In order to prevent this economic system from being affected by the rotation of political parties, all participating countries are starting to amend their own constitutions and fix the unified market and the Eastern European Central Bank in the form of laws.
Although the economies of various countries began to improve, enterprises in Eastern Europe still could not compete with developed capitalist countries. This is difficult for even Skoda, the industrial pearl of Czech Republic. In order to reduce the industrial and agricultural production costs of participating countries as a whole, cheap industrial raw materials and energy are indispensable. Therefore, the Market Committee under the Central Bank of Eastern Europe began to coordinate with various countries and negotiate with the Soviet Union, a neighbor in the eastern region, on industrial raw materials, agricultural products, and energy supply. It is hoped that a fair and mutually beneficial cooperation agreement could be reached.
The basic framework of this agreement was derived from the European Steel and Coal Community in 1951. At that time, Western European countries were unable to gain competitive advantages with the United States' cheap steel due to uneven coal resources. In order to alleviate this situation, Western European countries formed European Steel and Coal Community to reduce industrial production costs. Eastern Europe is not as rich as the Soviet Union's mineral resources and energy. If we rely solely on the resources of Poland and Romania, we cannot afford industrial production in the entire Eastern European region. On the other hand, Glencore Group imported a large amount of cotton, electrolytic aluminum, coal, oil and other resource products from the Soviet Union. These products are exactly what the Eastern European region needs. Once cooperation is reached, the prospects for cooperation between the two sides will be huge.
Because the Soviet Union had just successfully resolved the Kuwait crisis at the United Nations, coupled with Gorbachev's new thinking policy, the Soviet Union has always maintained a friendly attitude on the issue of independence among Eastern European countries. It is entirely possible to cooperate between an independent Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that did not completely turn to the West. Whether for the Soviet Union or for participating countries that are unified markets, letting go of ideological contradictions and actively developing the economy is the most important task at present.
Under this background, the negotiations between Nasca and the unified market participants went smoothly. The two sides signed some cooperation intentions in agricultural products, natural gas, oil, electricity and transportation. In order to avoid interference from politics and parties, these cooperations were dominated by companies. For example, the Mediterranean Shipping Group, which won a large number of ports and railways in the privatization of unified market countries, reached a transportation agreement with the Soviet railway companies. And Enron Group, which also occupies more than 90 shares of the power market in the unified market countries, signed an agreement with the Soviet State Electric Power Company on power cooperation. In addition, Eurasian Natural Gas Group, Glencore Group, and Occupythia Group have achieved fruitful results in this talk. Of course, their partners are the most powerful official enterprises in the Soviet Union, and are affiliated with the Mediterranean Trade Group under the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade.
Since the large-scale economic construction activities initiated by Seriosa have never been projected to the three Baltic countries and the Transcaucasus regions with serious separatism, the independence of these regions has no impact on Seriosa. There are still only a few countries before these countries, either joining the unified Eastern European market or continuing to stay in the Soviet Union. Western countries and the United States dare not invest in these regions. Once the Communist regime in these countries wins the election again, investment from Europe and the United States is likely to be wasted. These countries cannot cope with the poor domestic inflation and economic recession after independence. Under this background, joining the unified Eastern European market will be the only way out.
Seryosha had already planned that his unified Eastern European market would become an economic cooperation organization similar to the eurozone in the future. However, this organization was led by the Bank of Colombia. Seryosha did not expect the Central Bank of Eastern Europe to exist forever. Perhaps in the future, the huge Colombia would not be split into several smaller banks. Just like Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, but Seryosha could always firmly control the institution behind the scenes through the offshore financial center. In fact, Seryosha had such plans.
Not only Colombia Bank, but also behemoths like Glencore, Mediterranean Shipping, and Iridium Group are all too eye-catching now. Only those companies in Kalim's hands still maintain a competitive relationship even if they are acquired. It seems that Kalim is still more clever in this regard and knows how to hide his strength.
Chapter completed!