31.   There was increasing pressure from other European countries for access to EC markets if not membership of the EC.

32.   The draft charter called for close co-operation between European countries, including the Soviet Union, aimed at improved fuel efficiency and greater mutual co-operation.

33.   The end of the Cold War in Europe prompted several European countries to seek EC membership.

34.   Eastern European countries were likewise keen to join or at least to negotiate with the EC association agreements which would give them preferential access to EC markets.

35.   It was endorsed by European countries, Canada, Japan and the United States.

36.   In early January the Libyan government transfered assets from European banks to Middle East banks in anticipation of the imposition by European countries of new economic sanctions.

37.   During June several western European countries amended their policies on granting asylum.

38.   In general, however, Italian Romanesque architecture has, as in other European countries, common features.

39.   No other European country produced such magnificent and varied Romanesque architecture and none other possesses such a quantity of that heritage extant.

40.   Castles were built throughout the Middle Ages in all European countries.