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Abstract
This article provides an account of the issues posed for the European Community by German unification. It looks briefly at some of the political concerns of member states, especially France and Britain, about the implications of an enlarged Germany for the Community and the overall balance of power in a wider Europe. It then focuses on how the institutions of the EC responded to German unification, specifically the role of the Commission in initiating and managing the process of integration. Particular emphasis is placed on the formulation by the Commis sion of a package of proposals designed to secure the integration of the former GDR into the Community and on the negotiations which took place between Commission, Council and Parliament on the basis of these proposals, and which were completed by December 1990.