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The European Free Trade Association

An Intergovernmental Platform for Trade Relations

Book | 1st edition 2020 | Georges Baur
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“[This book] is highly useful in clarifying the legal and institutional basis for the European Free Trade Association.” -- Giuditta Cordero-Moss, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 2022

This book shall be an introduction into the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as an international organization and, inter alia, as a platform for its member states’ relations with the EU and for jointly negotiated Free Trade Agreements. EFTA – originally set up by the UK - is an example of how countries that do not want to be members of the EU can still have close links with it.

EFTA is a loose intragovernmental association of some economically highly specialised, small and wealthy Western European small states which have, until now, decided not to join the European Union (EU). Essentially it is the platform for Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland to coordinate their free trade policies as far as possible. Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway also use EFTA, in particular its Secretariat, to manage their membership of the European Economic Area (EEA) and to adopt relevant legislation into the Agreement. Particularly in the context of Brexit it should also be noted that there are elements of the relations between the four EFTA States and the EU which are not necessarily based on either the EEA Agreement or the EU-Swiss Agreements. Until recently, EFTA was considered an outdated model. However, since Brexit interest in EFTA has increased. Where the subject was covered in the press, but also in relevant statements by politicians, there was hardly any distinction made between ‘EFTA’ and the ‘EEA’. This book is not about Brexit, rather it will correct certain misconceptions about EFTA and provide a clear overview on what EFTA is: a platform for the economic relations between its member states; a platform for its member states’ free trade policy and a platform for its member states’ relations with the EU. There will be food for thought on the UK’s future outside the EU.

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Type of product Book
Format Paperback
EAN / ISSN 9781780686561 / 9781839700231
Weight 400 g
Status Available
Number of pages xxii
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Apr 7, 2020
Available on Jurisquare No
Available on Strada Belgique No
Available on Strada Europe No
Available on Strada Luxembourg No
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