The EEC exception to GATT rules unleashed wider protectionism

Evidence

In his presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1964, Haberler described the EEC as an “imminent danger to worldwide integration.” The man who took Röpke’s chair in Geneva, Gerard Curzon, called the American decision to allow the colonies in the Common Market “a case of original sin which was to cost the US dearly ­later on.” True to Haberler’s warning from 1958, the message of Eurafrica had been that “if the GATT could be ignored by its principal author for raison d’état it was not difficult to predict that ­others would soon do likewise.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 716

Categorization

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