The articles in this Bulletin set out to identify areas for an EEC initiative. All are based upon papers presented to a conference held at the IDS in June 1982 on the theme of 'Europe and the South in the 1980s: Prospects for Political Change'.' Most have since been revised substantially, to take account both of the comments made at the conference, and of the effects of subsequent events. All of them take it as given that there will continue to be a set of Community-level policies on North-South issues, in addition to policies established at a member-state level.