Unequal partners. (European Economic Community and European Free Trade Association)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: March 11, 1989 | Copyright information

Unequal partners

MEMBERS of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)--Austria, Switzerland and four Nordic countries--have long been regarded by some in Brussels as free loaders rather than free traders. Through their bilateral agreements with the European Community, EFTA members enjoy duty-free access to the EEC market for their manufactured exports. But they do not have to pay for the dotty common agricultural policy, nor contribute cash to the Community's regional programmes. Moreover, they benefit from subsidised EEC farm exports.

Yet some EFTA leaders now seem to be ...

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