NAFTA and the EU are the Two on a Collision Course?

• Authors: Ignacy Chrzanowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with some crucial issues of the relationship between the European Union and the North-American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA. NAFTA and its functional structure are briefly described in the paper, and possible gains and losses from a confrontation between NAFTA and the EU are discussed. The author's view of the potential benefits for Poland from a closer cooperation with NAFTA are also presented in the final section of the paper.

Keywords

EN

NAFTA; EU Confrontation; cooperation; enlargement; Gross Domestic Product; competition

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 131-141

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2011-11-09

Contributors

author

Ignacy Chrzanowski

• Department of Transport Management, Faculty of Economics and Transport Engineering, Maritime University Henryka, Pobożnego 11, 70-507 Szczecin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10031-011-0006-1