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The Common Market and the Zollverein: Experiences in Integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Emmanuel N. Roussakis
Emmanuel N. Roussakis*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Maryland Athens Center, Greece
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On March 25, 1957, the same Western European nations which six years earlier had pooled their coal and steel resources into the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), signed the Treaty of Rome and thus established the European Economic Community (EEC). Their goal was what the Schuman Declaration of May 9, 1950, had called a “European Federation.” The path they chose to follow toward political unity has been that of economic integration.

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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , August 1969 , pp. 201 - 208
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1969 

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Footnotes

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This article is a rework of some of the ideas carried in a doctoral thesis, Friedrich List, the Zollverein, and the Uniting of Europe, Bruges, College of Europe Press, 1968, undertaken under the direction of Professor L. Duquesne de la Vinelle.

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