"EFTA: Is it the end or the renewal?"

[From the Introduction]. For more than thirty years, EFTA was rather neglected in the European spectrum. EFTA lived in the shade of the EC though the EC was seductive enough to deprive EFTA from some of its founding members. Indeed, the organization has suffered from successive defections. One should rather consider EFTA as a stepping stone for further membership. But EFTA constantly redeployed the framework of its relations with the EC. Both organizations are moving towards further developments. They have to accomodate to each other changes but the process cannot take long as EFTA is to pressure upon the EC before "1992" to negociate for a European Economic Area (EEA)