Back to the Future? Lessons of Differentiated Integration from the EFTA Countries for the UK’s Future Relations with the EU
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Conceptual Framework
3. UK Preferences: ‘Leave’ the EU but ‘Remain’ Close to the Single Market
4. EFTA Lessons for Trade in Goods and Services
4.1. Fuzzy Freedoms in External Differentiated Integration
4.2. ‘Parallel Marketability’ as a Solution?
5. EFTA Lessons for the Free Movement of Persons
5.1. Non-Discrimination as a Core Principle
5.2. Liechtenstein’s ‘Special Solution’ in the EEA: A Precedent?
6. EFTA Lessons for the Institutional Structure
6.1. Two-Pillar System in the EEA: Decision-Shaping in Return for Market Homogeneity
6.2. Switzerland’s Search for an Institutional Solution
6.3. UK Membership of EFTA, the EEA or Association with EFTA?
7. Conclusions: ‘Global Britain’ in Europe
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
References and Notes
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Gstöhl S, Frommelt C. Back to the Future? Lessons of Differentiated Integration from the EFTA Countries for the UK’s Future Relations with the EU. Social Sciences. 2017; 6(4):121. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6040121
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