EFTA4UK
The Campaign to Rejoin EFTA
Applying to rejoin the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and securing a better relationship with the EU through EFTA membership presents the fastest and most realistic way to limit economic shock and build a brighter future for the United Kingdom.
WHAT IS EFTA?
EFTA is the ‘European Free Trade Association’ which the UK helped establish in 1960
HISTORY
EFTA was founded by the Stockholm Convention in 1960. Relations with the EEC, later the European Community (EC) and the European Union (EU), have been at the core of EFTA activities from the beginning. Since the beginning of the 1990s, EFTA has actively pursued trade relations with third countries in and beyond Europe.
EFTA and THE EU
EFTA consists of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA Agreement) brings together the Member States of the European Union and three of the EFTA States – Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway – in a single market, also referred to as the “Internal Market”.
The campaign in 2021
WHAT NEXT?
A no deal or a thin deal will not be sufficient for the UK and the shortcomings of the situation will become apparent very quickly.
In those circumstances, the pressure on the Government to act and return the country to a sense of normality will be overwhelming.
THE EFTA OPTION
Applying to rejoin EFTA and securing a better relationship with the EU through EFTA membership presents the fastest and most realistic way to return to normality.
CAN IT BE DONE?
Although there are challenges, we believe that EFTA membership could be achieved in perhaps 5-6 months and the new relationship with the EU close to a conclusion by the end of 2021.
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Not sure if this has been posted here before, but there is a modest movement within the Lib Dems to rejoin EFTA, under the banner of rejoining the EU by the back door. MP Alistair Carmichael is one of its proponents:
Alistair Carmichael sets out a route map back to the EU
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There has been a lot of talk about the party’s future approach to the EU. In a speech to Liberal Democrats in Cambridgeshire this week, Alistair Carmichael MP set out a possible route map back to full EU membership for the UK and has given us permission to reproduce his remarks. For the last quart...
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"We can build on the trade deal signed in December 2020. The short-term goal is to streamline the issues over paperwork, which are proving so disruptive and threaten the future of Welsh ports. In the medium term, we can seek to turn the trade deal into something more mutually beneficial without seeking to re-join the EU. There is an organisation that is “oven-ready” for us to join, to coin a phrase, – that is the European Free Trade Association which the UK helped to found in 1960. We only left EFTA when we joined the Common Market and it makes perfect sense to take our place once again..."![]()
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We are leaving the EU but not Europe writes Kathryn Cracknell. This has become something of a cliché which has been stated on numerous occasions by British politicians since the 2016 referendum. But what does it actually mean? In his Christmas Eve press conference with Commission President Ursula v...