EFTA's afterlife: its future does not lie in a new deal with the European Community. (European Free Trade Association) (editorial)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: June 16, 1990 | Copyright information

Its future does not lie in a new deal with the European Community

TEN years ago, when EFTA, the European Free Trade Association was celebrating its 20th birthday its six members could count themselves lucky. They had the plus of free trade without the minuses of the European Community. Their sovereignty was untainted by Brussels. They were spared argument about budgets and rebates and wine lakes. Yet their businessmen had as much access to Community markets as any EC insi...

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