Less than Membership but More than Association : Establishing the European Economic Area, 1989–1993

One of the principal forms of differentiated integration today is the European Economic Area (EEA), formed in 1994 and which draws together members of the European Union (EU) and three of the four members of European Free Trade Association (EFTA): Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Placing it within...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aunesluoma, Juhana
Other Authors: Broad, Matthew, Kansikas, Suvi, Centre for European Studies
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2020
Subjects:
5171 Political Science
Norway
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10138/321218
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Summary:One of the principal forms of differentiated integration today is the European Economic Area (EEA), formed in 1994 and which draws together members of the European Union (EU) and three of the four members of European Free Trade Association (EFTA): Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Placing it within a broader frame of the institutional development of European integration at the time, this chapter explores the EEA’s origins and founding principles. Besides showing how and why the EEA eventually took the shape it did, the chapter also looks at the EEA’s structural weaknesses and how, ultimately, a realisation of its institutional inadequacy paved the way for later EU enlargements. Peer reviewed

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