#15 Switzerland, Norway and the European Union
Europe’s two richest countries continue to prosper outside the EU By RONALD STEWART-BROWN Download Briefing Note: bn#15
Europe’s two richest countries continue to prosper outside the EU By RONALD STEWART-BROWN Download Briefing Note: bn#15
The Treaty of Nice is said to be a pre-condition for "enlargement" – the accessionof central and eastern European states to the EU. But enlargement needs wholesale reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, which was not discussed at Nice. The real agenda was about "deepening" – the further centralisation of power in Brussels. By RONALD STEWART-BROWN Download Briefing [...]
The Pan-European Cumulation System effectively creates a Pan European free trade zone for industrial goods By RONALD STEWART-BROWN Download Briefing Note: bn#11
The most ambitious free trade agreement in terms of coverage ever negotiated by the EU Pascal Lamy, EU Trade Commissioner, 24th November 1999 By RONALD STEWART-BROWN Download Briefing Note: bn#8
Europe in reality is a closed theatre where formidable battles are fought between the member states ...there are no common ideals and a common European destiny is inconceivable. Jacques Attali, former foreign policy adviser to President Mitterrand By GRAHAM STEWART Download Briefing Note: bn#6