[lbo-talk] Redmond's Euro-boostering

[Devine, James]

one thing that should be noted. The EU, though it lowers trade barriers within its borders, still has tariffs and the like vis-a-vis outsiders like Estonia. Thus E wants to join the EU. But these barriers don't apply to Sweden. 

or am I misinformed? 

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Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Henwood [mailto:dhenwood at panix.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:42 AM
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Redmond's Euro-boostering
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> boddhisatva wrote:
> 
> >In the long run, Estonia was right and Sweden was wrong.
> 
> As my radio guest yesterday, Larry Siedentop of Oxford, argues, the 
> two votes are actually quite consistent. Estonia voted to join a 
> federation, not an entity evolving into a single nation-state, and 
> Sweden voted to keep the EU a federation.
> 
> Doug
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