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Protectionism—A necessary price for achieving the European internal market?

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Trade policy will have to be unifled if the member states of the European Community are to achieve their declared objective of creating a homogeneous internal European market by the year 1992. On what principles should such a Community trade policy be based?

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  14. Ibid., Cf. Hans-Hagen Härtel et al., footnote 6 to chapter 4/IV, p. 207.

  15. According to a compilation by Georg Koopmann. For the period 1977–83 see Georg Koopmann: Nationaler Protektionismus und gemeinsame Handelspolitik in der EG, op. cit., Handelspolitik in der EG, in: Bodo Gemper (ed.): Protektionismus in der Weltwirtschaft, Hamburg 1984, pp. 30.

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Scharrer, HE. Protectionism—A necessary price for achieving the European internal market?. Intereconomics 22, 9–13 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929789

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