<span>Offices that are concerned with foreign policy focus on the nation’s relationships with other countries.
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<span> EEC, which came into operation in January 1958, was a major step in Europe's movement towardeconomic and political union. By 1950, it ... Britain and other European nations initially declined to join the Common Market and established the weaker European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 1960 as an alternative.</span><span>
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