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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8564

16 October 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/eea
Lichtenstein refuses to sign agreement exapanding European economic area to ten future Member States

Brussels, 15/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday Liechtenstein refused to sign an agreement on expanding the European Economic Area (EEA) with the ten future EU Member States. The objective of the agreement was to coincide EEA enlargement (which includes 15 EU Member States and Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland) with that of the EU on 1 May 2004. The refusal stems from territorial disputes between Liechtenstein and Czechoslovakia, dating from World War II. In 1945, Czechoslovakia...

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