Word: benelux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most decisive display of the Common Market's new sense of self-confident power was directed against the U.S. last week. Voting for the first retaliatory tariff in the market's four-year history, its six members-France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations-doubled their duties on a variety of U.S. plastics and textiles, and also raised tariffs on some paints. The move was in frank reprisal for President Kennedy's decision last March to boost U.S. tariffs on imported carpets and glass of a variety largely produced in Belgium. The Belgians protested that Kennedy...
With support from the Benelux nations and. if they are admitted, her former "Outer Seven" trading partners-Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland-Britain would obviously challenge the present Franco-German dominance of the Common Market. With all those countries included, the result may be a "Big Europe," many Common Market partisans fear, bound by commercial rather than political ties and in danger (as Adenauer puts it) of "growing so fat that it bursts...
...Europe. But Common Market officials in Brussels are sure that the Kremlin will eventually have to accept the inevitable; after 15 years, Russian trade officials finally show signs of giving in on a similar issue and will probably soon be dealing with Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg as Benelux, not as three separate nations. For Moscow, that is a concession to reality...
...Netherlands still balked at the whole idea. Tough-minded Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, one of the Common Market's founding fathers, deeply distrusts De Gaulle's obstructionist foreign policy, fears that a Europe of Fatherlands would give short shrift to smaller nations. In fact, the Benelux nations are only waging a delaying action until Britain joins the Common Market. Confident that the British will prove a powerful counterweight to France and a staunchly pro-NATO voice in its councils, they will be less fearful of confederation as a halfway house to their ultimate ideal of supranational...
...start, the six Common Market countries (France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux) last July set up a committee under French Diplomat Christian Fouchet to suggest a plan for a politically unified Europe to move parallel with the growing economic community...