Archive Report
Archive Report
New Impetus To Integration Of Europe
Favorable Outlook for Vast Free-Trade Project
A EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COALITION, forming a great tariff-free trading area for the manufactured products of a dozen continental countries and the United Kingdom, is coming rapidly into view across the Atlantic. The six nations which set up the pioneer European Coal and Steel Community four years ago—Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany—signed a treaty at Rome on Mar. 25 to establish a common market or customs union. Meanwhile, plans are under way to link Great Britain, the Scandinavian countries, Austria, Switzerland, and possibly others with the common-market group to make an over-all free trade area embracing a population of 240 million persons.
When the projected European Defense Community went down to defeat at the ...