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European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1959–1972Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1959

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st20 November 1959

Government / Conservative Party Government

Takes Britain into EFTA

1972

Edward Richard George Heath31 December 1972

Government / Conservative Party Government

Britain leaves EFTA in order to join the EU

Names involved

Edward Richard George HeathMaurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st

Provenance

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