CEPR Research Fellows took part in a joint policy workshop on `Patterns of Production and Trade in the New Europe' with the European Free Trade Association, held in Geneva on 29/30 October. The programme was organized by Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and Per Magnus Wijkman, Director of Economic Affairs at the EFTA Secretariat. Participants included members of EFTA's Economic Committee, the delegations of the CSFR, Hungary and Poland meeting with the Economic Committee, representatives of the six other Central and East European countries with which EFTA countries have signed declarations of cooperation, and international organizations. The following papers were presented:

`Likely Effects of Free Trade in Europe on the Commodity and Country Composition of Trade', Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and CEPR)

`Structural Adjustments in Production in the EC and in East European Countries Following Free Trade', Alasdair Smith (University of Sussex and CEPR)

`The Europe Agreements: An Assessment', L Alan Winters (University of Birmingham and CEPR)

`The Free Trade Agreement between EFTA Countries and CSFR: An Assessment', Jiri Scharff (Czechoslovak Technology Group, Prague)

The workshop concluded with a panel discussion addressed by Péter Balazs, Thorvaldur Gylfason, Andrzej Olechowski and Richard Portes, with the Norwegian Secretary of State for Trade, Bjorn Skogstad Aamo, in the chair. The proceedings of the workshop will be published early in 1993 by the EFTA Secretariat, 1211 Geneva.