Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Dieter Stiefel, Alice Teichova (Hrsg.): Sonderband 9. „Zarte Bande” – Österreich und die europäischen planwirtschaftlichen Länder / „Delicate Relationships” – Austria and Europe’s Planned Economies (2006)
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Editors The editors wish to thank the General Director of the Austrian State Archives Professor Dr. Lorenz Mikoletzky for hosting the conference on “Austria’s Economic Relations with Central and South-East European Neighbours after the Second World War” and for proposing and supporting this publication. We should like to extend our thanks to Professor Riitta Eljerppe (Elelsinki) and Ambassador Dr. Henryk Szlajfer (Warsaw) who kindly chaired sessions, as well as to Dr. Erhard Busek for introducing the conference. We are grateful to the following institutions for helping to fund the conference: • Ambassador Dr. Emil Brix, General Secretary of the Austrian Research Association • The Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Arts • The Austrian Society for Banking Science • Dr. Johann Kembauer of Bank Austria/Capital Invest Our thanks are also due to the copy editor Michaela Follner for preparing the manuscript for printing. 12
