Când Estul (re)întâlnește Vestul Jocul intereselor economice româno-britanice în anii ’60
When East (re)meets West. The stakes of Romanian-British economic interests in the 1960s and 1970s

Summary/Abstract: In the context of liberalization of the 1960s and 1970s, the United Kingdom followed a policy of openness toward the communist bloc countries by fostering political, economic, and cultural relations. For its part, the government in Bucharest was interested in developing economic relations and acquiring technology. The majority of official delegations that visited Western countries in the second half of the 1960s had mainly economic missions: contracts for the acquisition of advanced technology, obtaining loans at favorable interest rates, and testing markets to boost foreign trade. As a result of the official visits and economic agreements concluded during the 1960s with the United Kingdom, Romania managed to acquire technology for important industrial projects such as the Danubiana tire factory and the Galați steelworks.

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