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The Wider Western Europe: Reshaping The Ec/Efta Relationship

Edited by Helen Wallace
Reviewed by By William Diebold, Jr.
Summer 1991
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Edited by Helen Wallace
Pinter (for the Royal Institute of International Affairs)
1991
285 pp.
$59.00

To think through the question of relating the European Community to its neighbors in the European Free Trade Association is to "touch on the fundamentals of the European integration process," says this volume's editor. These papers not only make clear her meaning but lay out in some detail issues not yet resolved that will have to be faced again as the EC deals with the countries of eastern Europe.

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