Word: benelux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steady. ¶France, traditionally slow to react to economic fluctuations in the rest of the world, is still fighting inflation. While production is increasing at a rate of 9% annually, prices are still rising. Biggest concern: the government's battle to keep the budget deficit manageable. ¶The Benelux countries are in a mild recession. Belgians are worried about high coal stocks and low commodity prices. Dutch agricultural exports are lagging, but overall exports continue to rise 3% a year. Money rates in all the Benelux nations have been dropping. While there is some regional unemployment, Beneluxers are most...
Premiers and Foreign Ministers forthwith signed a treaty that formalized the steps already progressively taken, and the Benelux Economic Union, the world's fourth largest foreign trader, was officially born. "There is no longer any doubt that we will stay united," declared Belgium's Premier Achille Van Acker. As a pilot plant for the European Common Market, in which the three small nations are joined with France, West Germany and Italy, Benelux augured well...
...FIRST BENELUX CAR will be manufactured this year by The Netherlands' DAF company. It is a two-door, four-passenger sedan, priced at about...
Undramatically and tentatively, the United States of Europe-or the closest thing to it since Charlemagne-may be taking shape in 1958. On Jan. 1, economic and atomic "communities" drawing together 165 million Europeans of six nations (France, West Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries) came into being...
...more pressing, and more recent topics of discussion than Hungary. Congress' substantial cuts in foreign aid have angered many Europeans, who expected greater, not less financial assistance from Washington. France, losing more of her economic balance every month, feels strong disappointment over Congress' action, along with Italy and the Benelux nations...