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The EU Preferential Trade Agreements: Defining Priorities for a Debt-Ridden, Growth-Starving EU

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  • Patrick Messerlin

    (Département d'économie (ECON))

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The EU severe debt problem requires urgently the design and implementation of domestic pro-growth reform agendas in Europe. Opening markets to foreign competitors has always been a way to boost and buttress such agendas. A “Sleeping Doha” Round leaves preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as the only channel for opening markets to foreign competition. In this context, this paper examines two questions: do the PTAs currently negotiated by the EU fit well the EU quest for growth? If not, what would be the appropriate PTAs?

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  • Patrick Messerlin, 2012. "The EU Preferential Trade Agreements: Defining Priorities for a Debt-Ridden, Growth-Starving EU," Sciences Po publications info:hdl:2441/faqom67ai2q, Sciences Po.
    • Handle: RePEc:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/faqom67ai2qsojk9j15c2d283
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