Archive Report
Archive Report
Example of the three Benelux States
Benelux as a Laboratory for Common market
The economic union of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands has been called a laboratory for the European Common Market, which embraces France, Italy and West Germany as well as the Benelux countries. At a conference of the heads of government of the Benelux states at The Hague, April 28–29, 1969, it was decided that all frontier controls between the three nations should be abolished by Nov. 1, 1970. Furthermore, the ministers agreed that the social and economic policies of their respective countries should be coordinated, that the tariff-free status of trade between them should be continued, and that there should no longer be any controls over the exchange of agricultural commodities.
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