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{{tag|European Free Trade Association}} — euro-refuseniks, numbering amongst them {{tag|Iceland}}, {{tag|Norway}}, {{tag|Switzerland}}, {{tag|Liechtenstein}} — and possibly soon to be ''the [[UK]]''? This would be a dramatic getting-back-together of the band, since UK was a founding member of the EFTA back in 1960. The [http://www.efta.int/legal-texts/efta-convention EFTA Convention] governs intra-EFTA trade, and EFTA also has free trade agreements with third countries, including the EU, though that FTA has somewhat withered in the vine, and the EFTA members have all done their own thing. | {{a|mifid2|}}{{tag|European Free Trade Association}} — euro-refuseniks, numbering amongst them {{tag|Iceland}}, {{tag|Norway}}, {{tag|Switzerland}}, {{tag|Liechtenstein}} — and possibly soon to be ''the [[UK]]''? This would be a dramatic getting-back-together of the band, since UK was a founding member of the EFTA back in 1960. The [http://www.efta.int/legal-texts/efta-convention EFTA Convention] governs intra-EFTA trade, and EFTA also has free trade agreements with third countries, including the EU, though that FTA has somewhat withered in the vine, and the EFTA members have all done their own thing. | ||
[[EFTA]] is like a gateway drug to the [[EEA]], because to get in that club, you first have to (cough ... ''re'')join [[EFTA]]. All of the EFTA Member States bar [[Switzerland]] are also members of the EEA. | [[EFTA]] is like a gateway drug to the [[EEA]], because to get in that club, you first have to (cough ... ''re'')join [[EFTA]]. All of the EFTA Member States bar [[Switzerland]] are also members of the EEA. | ||