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Europe: The Six and the Seven

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

U. W. Kitzinger
U. W. Kitzinger
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formerly Secretary of the Council of Europe's Economic Committee, is now Research Fellow of Nuffield College and Lecturer in Politics at Worcester and Keble Colleges, Oxford. His publications include The Economics of the Saar Question and German Electoral Politics.
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In December 1959 the European Free Trade Association was set up in Stockholm, and thus the postwar efforts to unite western Europe have led to a significant new division within it: two separate areas of free trade are being set up, at much the same pace, the “Inner Six” centered around France and Germany, the “Outer Seven” around Britain and Scandinavia.

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International Organization , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Winter 1960 , pp. 20 - 36
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1960

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1 A customs union involves the mutual abolition of tariffs within the area and the creation of a common tariff around it; a free trade area involves the mutual abolition of tariffs within the area without a common tariff around it.

2 Different areas accounted for the following percentage shares in United Kingdom trade: