BENELUX ECONOMIC UNION

bĕnˈəlŭksˌ, economic treaty among Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It arose out of a customs convention signed in 1944, but was not fully established until 1958. The union was established to promote free movement of workers, capital, goods, and services in the Benelux region. All three countries were also founding members of what has become the European Union (EU), which has implemented these same reforms. Benelux was the first entirely free international labor market, but its goal of merging the fiscal and monetary systems of the three countries was only largely fulfilled when most EU nations replaced their currencies with the euro (2002).

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books on: Benelux Economic Union  - 608 results

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Benelux: An Economic Geography of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
Book by R. C. Riley, G. J. Ashworth; Holmes & Meier, 1975
Subjects: Benelux Countries--Economic Conditions
...Community, and the open nature of Benelux society which has always been...Case Studies in European Union : The Machanics of Integration...1964. Secretariat of the Benelux Economic Union, What is the Significance of Benelux? , 1965.
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Britain's Trade and Economic Structure: The Impact of the European Union
Book by Lynden Moore; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: European Union Countries--Foreign Economic Relations--Great Britain, European Union--Great Britain, Great Britain--Commercial Policy, Great Britain--Economic Conditions--20th Century, Great Britain--Foreign Economic Relations--European Union Countries, Industrial Policy--Great Britain
...to be achieved by economic means. Before the war a customs union had been negotiated...Netherlands and Luxembourg Benelux and this was put into...Germany, Italy and Benelux, establishing the...establishing the European Economic Community EEC . A...
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The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union
Book by Kenneth Dyson, Kevin Featherstone; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Economic And Monetary Union, Monetary Policy--European Union Countries, Monetary Unions--European Union Countries
...conditional on the degree of economic convergence achieved at different...readjustment, in response to new economic pressures. As already noted...rate system till the time when economic integration had advanced sufficiently...D-Mark bloc of Germany, Benelux, and Denmark. A two-tier...
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Case Studies in European Economic Union: The Mechanics of Integration
Book by J. E. Meade, H. H. Liesner, S. J. Wells, J. Meade E.; Oxford University Press, 1962
Subjects: Europe--Economic Integration, International Economic Integration
...commercial policy for the union vis-a-vis the outside...obtaining agreement on Benelux problems. The second...changed to the Council for Economic Union . This formal change...original names of the three Benelux councils suggest how...construction of the Benelux Economic Union was regarded as...
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The Welfare State in the European Union: Economic and Social Perspectives
Book by Pierre Pestieau; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: European Union Countries--Social Policy, Public Welfare--European Union Countries, Welfare State--European Union Countries
...income inequality and lifetime income poverty in the European Union countries. Moreover, the existing studies show that the ranking...across European countries. At the one extreme, there are the Benelux and Nordic countries with little poverty and small inequalities...
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journal articles on: Benelux Economic Union  - 117 results

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The Benelux Deployable Air Task Force: a Model for Eu/nato Defense Force Integration
Journal article by Dave L. Orr; Air & Space Power Journal, Vol. 17, 2003
Subjects: Armed forces, Belgium, International relations, Luxembourg, Military policy, Military readiness, Netherlands, Political alliances, Task forces
...security force to form the Benelux DATF-viable, highly...themes in the European Union (EU) and the North...specialized task forces. The Benelux DATF has been a model...future contingencies. Benelux DATF Origins-Developing...expanded its focus from economic interoperability to aggressively...
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'The Generous Utopia of Yesterday Can Become the Practical Achievement of Tomorrow': 1000 Years of Monetary Union in Europe
Journal article by Luca Einaudi; National Institute Economic Review, 2000
Subjects: Europe--Economic policy, European Monetary Union--Management, Monetary policy--Europe, Monetary unions--History
...European political union. The driving...currencies for economic activity in natural...agreements, customs unions or common markets...larger degree of economic policy coordination...standards, coinage unions were absolutely...issue of monetary union was discussed...European Payment Union (1950). The European Economic Community (EEC...Italy and the Benelux countries, under...
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Moving towards EMU: The Challenges Ahead
Journal article by John Arrowsmith, Christopher Taylor; National Institute Economic Review, 1996
Subjects: European Monetary System--Management, European Monetary Union--Planning, United Kingdom--Economic policy
...destabilising macro-economic effects on the monetary union itself. One possible...in the monetary union and in individual...there is a strong economic case for modifying...the degree of economic integration among...now to monetary union, because they...
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European Integration and External Constraints on Social Policy: Is a Social Charter Necessary?
Journal article by John Ermisch; National Institute Economic Review, 1991
Subjects: Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects, Europe--Emigration and immigration, European Union--Social policy, Migrant labor--Social aspects, Single European Act, 1986--Social aspects, Social policy--International aspects
...spontaneous movement in response to economic opportunities. When European (and world) economic growth slowed after 1973...across countries in a customs union like the EC (Samuelson...sensitivity of Irish migration to economic conditions. Keenan (1981...
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European Union, Properly Construed
Journal article by Reginald Dale; Policy Review, 2003
Subjects: Bush, George W., Chirac, Jacques, European Union, World politics--Analysis
...is the European Unions increasingly active...an international economic power, as it already...that the European Union must become "a...its population and economic weight should earn it. The small Benelux countries were dedicated...fledgling European Union was powered by growing German economic strength and steered...
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magazine articles on: Benelux Economic Union  - 58 results

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The Former Commission President Remains Supremely Confident of the EU's Future: Economic Union, Political Democracy and Twice the Size
Magazine article by Charles Grant; New Statesman, Vol. 127, January 2, 1998
Subjects: Delors, Jacques--Interviews, European Monetary Union--Political activity, European Union--Political activity, United Kingdom--International aspects
...EUs future: economic union, political...the trade unions more pro...Commons on economic and monetary union, which was...of monetary union is that it...had feeble economic growth and...France, the Benelux three, Spain...
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European Monetary Union and the European Parliament
Magazine article by Graham Watson; Contemporary Review, Vol. 268, February 1996
Subjects: European Monetary Union--Analysis, European Union. European Parliament--Economic policy, United Kingdom--Economic policy
European Monetary Union and the European Parliament. by Graham Watson Even if EMU (European Monetary Union) is now unlikely before the end of the...into the subject: if there is a Monetary Union, and if it works, it is in Britains interest...
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Europe's Monetary Union and the United States
Magazine article by C. Randall Henning; Foreign Policy, Spring 1996
Subjects: Euro (Currency)--International aspects, European Monetary Union--International aspects, European Union--Economic aspects, International economic relations--Europe, Monetary unions--Europe, United States--Relations with European Union
...Europes monetary union and the United States...toward the European Unions plan to create a monetary union. Thus, the United...the prospects for economic and monetary union...First, the monetary union would help to insulate...one monetary bloc economic output that is much...of Austria, the Benelux countries, Denmark...
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Europe's Second Pillar: A European Deposit Insurance System, Complementing Monetary Union, Can Help to Contain the European Race to the Bottom in Financial Sector Subsidies and Regulatory Arbitrage
Magazine article by Hans-Joachim Dubel; The International Economy, Vol. 22, Fall 2008
Subjects: Administrative arbitration, Arbitration (Administrative law), Banking industry--Economic aspects, Banking industry--Industry forecasts, Banking industry--Laws, regulations and rules, Deposit insurance--Laws, regulations and rules, Financial crises
...Complementing Monetary Union, Can Help to Contain...funding base, the EU Economic and Financial Affairs...depositors. After the Benelux rescue of Fortis in early...states and the European Union over the minimum interest...European beyond the European Union--in the area of tax...
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The SME Phenomenon: While It Is Tempting to Concentrate on the Progress of the Region's High Rollers, Traditionally It Has Been the Small and Medium-Sized Companies That Have Been the Engines Driving Economic Development and Change in the Arab World
Magazine article by Pamela Ann Smith, Moin Siddiqi; The Middle East, March 2010
Subjects: Middle East--Economic aspects, Small and medium sized companies--Economic aspects, Small and medium sized companies--Forecasts and trends
...Been the Engines Driving Economic Development and Change...efforts to revive the Union for the Mediterranean...determination to pursue radical economic and financial reforms...this process of wider economic and market integration...UK, Germany and the Benelux countries as well as...
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newspaper articles on: Benelux Economic Union  - 16 results

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Europeans Crunch Numbers as Euro Deadline Looms
Newspaper article by Richard C. Gross; The Washington Times, March 9, 1997
Subjects: European Monetary Union
...countries of the European Union will be in the newest, perhaps most exclusive economic club of the century come...by treaty, that the Economic and Monetary Union...countries - including a major economic force such as Germany...France, Germany and the Benelux countries Belgium, the...
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Divided EU Battles to Keep Banks Afloat; 'Bickering' Foils Bailout
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 6, 2008
Subjects: Banks (Finance), Euro (Currency), European Union, International cooperation
...27-nation European Union that belie the blocs...decade ago, the European Unions strength lies in its economic integration and financial...of the regions four economic heavyweights - France...worry that the European Union is also buffeted by...scrambled to prop up ailing Benelux banks Dexia and Fortis...
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Charter Crafting Franklin-Scale Task; Agreement on Goals but Disputes on How to Reach Them Risky for U.S
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 5, 2003
Subjects: European Union, Giscard d'Estaing, Valery
...give the European Union a clearer sense...Parliament, the unions only directly elected...Italy and the Benelux group (Belgium...By providing the union with a foreign minister...contrary to the Unions interests or likely...hoping to join the union in 2007 - with rejection...We have a common economic policy, and it...
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National Day of Luxembourg
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 22, 2010
...for the majority of the economic output. Luxembourg is...UN), the European Union (EU), the Western European Union (WEU), the Benelux Economic Union, the Organization...the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
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Prince Hassan's Alarm
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 3, 2006
...Abba Eban advocated the Benelux concept (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg economic union) for Israel, Palestine...independence within a larger economic union. The Olmert plan establishes...unilaterally and thus buries the Benelux construct. But Jordan...
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encyclopedia articles on: Benelux Economic Union  - 5 results

 
 
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Benelux Economic Union
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BENELUX ECONOMIC UNION ben luks , economic treaty among Belgium, the Netherlands...capital, goods, and services in the Benelux region. All three countries were...implemented these same reforms. Benelux was the first entirely free international...
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Luxembourg , Grand Duchy, W Europe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to establish the Benelux Economic Union and became...of the European Economic Community (now the European Union). In 1961, Prince...of the European Unions European Commission...and G. Ashworth, Benelux: An Economic Geography (1975...
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Belgium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...is with other European Union countries, chiefly Germany...virtual independence and economic prosperity through their...eldest son, Baudouin . An economic union between Belgium...superseded in 1958 by the Benelux Economic Union , which also includes...
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Netherlands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Netherlands) had reached economic prosperity. Revolt in...many of the people for economic and religious reasons...Groningen formed (1579) the Union of Utrecht and declared...which became (1958) the Benelux Economic Union . The country also...
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Free Trade
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...In the period of international economic dislocation in the mid-1930s...selective tariff reduction for economic and political reasons. At present...Tariffs and Trade (1948), the Benelux Economic Union (1948), the European Economic...


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