EconWatch.com > Transatlantic Free-Trade Zone as "NATO for the World Economy"

http://atlanticreview.org [Atlantic Review - Analysis of U.S. foreign policy and transatlantic relations] The role NATO played in an age of military threat could be played by a trans-Atlantic free-trade zone in today's age of economic confrontation. The two economic zones -- the European Union and the United States (perhaps with the addition of Canada) -- could stem the dwindling of Western market power by joining forces.

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