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Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: From Messina to the Formation of 'Plan G' -- From Marshall to Messina -- Confronting the Six -- Towards a New Policy -- Responding to Plan G -- The Six -- The Non-Six -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: The OEEC Investigation and the Eve of the Intergovernmental Negotiations -- Britain and the Six -- The Three Working Parties -- Working Party No. 21: The Industrial FTA -- Working Party No. 22: Agriculture -- Working Party No. 23: The Peripherals -- Discussions Beyond the OEEC -- The Six -- The Non-Six -- The United Kingdom's Policy Debate -- The Six and the Eve of the OEEC Council -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4: The Maudling Negotiations and the End of the Free Trade Area -- Agriculture and the Non-Six -- The Emergence of a French Policy -- The Carli Plan and the Ockrent Report -- 'An Effort of Imagination and of Will' -- Taking Stock -- Britain -- France -- United States -- The Endgame -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: The Emergence of 'the Seven' -- Venting Fury -- Scandinavian Cooperation -- The 'Non-Six Six' -- British Reassessment -- The Role of Industrial Federations -- The 'Non-Six' and the Collapse of the FTA -- The Sommerfelt/de Besche Mission -- The UK Decision -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6: The Stockholm Negotiations -- The Opening Talks -- The Danish Side-Payment: Agriculture -- The Ministerial Meeting of 20-21 July -- The Portuguese Side-Payment: Annex G -- The Resumed Negotiations -- A Further Portuguese Side-Payment -- A Final Side-Payment: Norwegian Fish and the Last Ministerial Meeting of 19-20 November -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Consolidating the Association -- Operationalising the Association -- Building Bridges? -- Defending EFTA -- EFTA and the Reorganisation of the OEEC -- The (Non-)Decision to Accelerate -- The Geopolitics of EFTA Enlargement -- Conclusions.

This book traces the emergence of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) from 1955 to 1963 amid the broader reshaping of the institutional architecture of post-war Europe. It considers the ill-fated Free Trade Area (FTA) proposal, the subsequent creation of EFTA, and the resulting division of Western Europe into two distinct trading blocs. At its core, the book provides an international history of a formative moment of post-war and European integration history, and explores the intense technical discussions among European states as they grappled with the prospect of deeper economic and political unity. It thus provides the first detailed analysis combining the FTA and EFTA negotiations, considering both state and non-state actors. Drawing on archives from Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US, as well as the records of the OEEC and EFTA, it examines the decision-making processes of those intimately involved as well as the institutional settings within which they were forced to reconcile their positions. At a key moment of contemporary European friction, the book offers a dialogue between the past and those trying to make sense of events that continue to shape Europe today.