Die Gründung europäischer Infrastrukturorganisationen im Ost/West-Vergleich: die PTT-Organisationen OSS und CEPT

Enveloping Europe: Plans and Practices in Postal Governance, 1929–1959

“…As a reaction to Western initiatives, in December 1957 the Eastern Bloc set up its own Organisation for Cooperation of Socialist Countries in the Field of Telecommunication and Postal Communications. 96 This further convinced several postal officials that a European postal union was possible and even desirable in the Western part of the continent. Belgian and French experts were particularly active in promoting it.…”

Part III: End of the war, end of the European postal area? (1943-1959)

“…Henrich-Franke describes the emergence of the OCSC as a process generally dominated by the Soviet Union. 1027 His characterisation of the creation of the socialist PTT organisation is somewhat similar to that of the EPTU. This is especially the case regarding the power hierarchy between the different member administrations.…”

“…This had only been a subordinate issue in the negotiations for the founding of the OCSC in 1958. 1152 The Soviet PTT administration added a drawing of protesting people below the two heads, 1153 which means there was no visible connection to the PTT on the stamp. The Romanian administration used the exact same motif.…”

Introduction

“…160 Frank Pfetsch identifies the following stages of the negotiation cycle: pre-negotiations, agenda-setting, negotiation formula, detailed negotiations, agreements, implementation and post-negotiations. These 162 The phases consist of the initiation phase, the decision phase and the working phase. More phases are barely detectable, coincide or both in the case of the EPTU, and a crucial part of the policy cycle -the evaluation -is largely missing due to the short span of the EPTU's existence.…”