In February 1972, in an article for the magazine Berichte und Informationen, Fritz Bock, former Austrian Vice-Chancellor, outlines the special position of Austria arising from its participation in EFTA and its efforts to secure accession to the European Communities. It deplores, in particular, the fact that Austria did not accept the bilateral interim agreement with the European Economic Community (EEC) and that the country must now try to reach an overall agreement, along with the other two neutral countries, Sweden and Switzerland, with the EEC.