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Explainer - the history of free trade in Europe

March 6, 2019

In 1280, the Hanseatic League was formed in Lübeck. It was a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Germany and elsewhere in northern Europe, and a kind of forerunner to modern free-trade associations.

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