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In 2020, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) celebrates its 60th anniversary. During this respectable lifetime, its composition has frequently changed, starting with seven founding members in 1960 and having four today. EFTA has turned out to be an ‘antechamber’ for the EU, as well as a distinct organisation with its own purpose. Since the foundation of the European Economic Area (EEA) in 1992, EFTA states Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein have joined this area, whereas Switzerland has chosen ...

This study was prepared at the request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). It provides a critical assessment of the implications of existing models of cooperation of third countries with the European Union in each of four thematic areas for which the ITRE is responsible (energy, electronic communications, research policy, and small business policy. The relative desirability to the EU of EEA membership, bilateral relationships (as with Switzerland), a new ...

European Capitals of Culture broaden their reach

Εν συντομία 07-06-2017

In June 2016, the European Commission adopted a proposal to allow more European countries to join the European Capitals of Culture. An agreement was reached in interinstitutional trilogue negotiations, and the agreed text is due to be voted by the Parliament during the June plenary.

The biggest trading partner of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is the EU, but third countries have made up an increasing share of EFTA's trade since it began exploring new markets through free trade agreements (FTAs) following the end of the Cold War. Since international trade accounts for a significant share of EFTA countries' national economies, boosting trade with new markets is a priority for the association. Trade between the EU and three of the four EFTA states (the EEA EFTA states ...

This study provides an implementation monitoring tool which allows for a systematic overview of review and monitoring clauses, sunset clauses as well as management and implementation clauses that are included in international agreements concluded between the EU and third countries. As an implementation monitoring tool, this study intends to provide a systematic overview of review and monitoring clauses, sunset clauses as well as management and implementation clauses present in international agreements ...

Infrastructure investments are an important element in international economic cooperation. Besides bilateral agreements, European donor countries often use the institutional platform given by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to negotiate the terms of financial assistance with recipient countries. However, the dominance of these Western development and investment institutions is challenged by China, which has launched the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). While the ...

Johannes Hahn, the recently-confirmed European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations, appeared before the European Parliament's Committee for Foreign Affairs (AFET) on 30 September 2014 to answer MEPs' questions. In that hearing and in his answers to the questionnaire prepared for the meeting in advance, Commissioner Hahn made a number of statements of interest to the European Parliament. This document provides a summary of his most salient points.

This paper assesses the substance of EU preferential trade agreements compared to those of the United States, EFTA and Japan. The topic is important because of the growth of PTAs but also because PTAs are destined to remain at centre stage. The debate on PTAs is not therefore about whether and how they might grow in importance but rather how they reflect trade policy preferences of the parties and how preferential and multilateral approaches will interact. While PTAs can promote liberalisation in ...

Regional Cooperation and the European Economic Area (EEA)

Λεπτομερής ανάλυση 18-03-2009

Considering the legal homogeneity principle on which the European Economic Area is based, reforms currently under discussion in the European Community concerning the implementation of Articles 81 and 82 EC will have to be incorporated within the EEA framework once adopted, especially in the so-called EEA EFTA Pillar side. From a technical point of view, this requires sine qua non legal amendments to some EEA Agreement Protocols, to Protocol n°4 of the Agreement between EFTA States on the Establishment ...