French attitudes toward the Free Trade Area plan, 1956〜58

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  • EEC成立期における自由貿易圏構想へのフランスの対応
  • EEC セイリツキ ニ オケル ジユウ ボウエキケン コウソウ エ ノ フランス ノ タイオウ

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The purpose of this article is to analyze the European Free Trade Area (FTA) from the point of view of the French government, and to explain the reasons behind France's veto. The proposal to create the FTA caused France great concern. On the one hand, it was feared as a British attempt to sabotage the Common Market negotiations; on the other hand, it was welcomed as a way of involving Britain in European integration. It was essential for France that the FTA would include the same 'guarantees' as those procured for the Common Market. But as discussions proceeded within the French government, it became clear that a simple enlargement of the Common Market would not be to their advantage. In other words, France's rejection of the FTA was not caused by any lack of 'guarantees'. The problem lay in the fact that the FTA would not create the framework necessary for the modernization of the French economy; even worse, it would ruin the Treaties of Rome, which promised to do so.

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