The word "after" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to something that happens later in time or at the end of a sequence of events. For example, "After dinner, we went for a walk."
The combined population of current Efta nations is 14 million, compared with the UK population of 65 million.
Norway is part of the European Free Trade Association (Efta), whose members – which include Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein – are not members of the EU but have signed up to the free movement of goods, services, capital and people and so are part of the single market alongside the 28 EU countries in the European Economic Area EEAA).
Norway is not a member of the EU but has access to the single market though its membership of the EEA, which groups EU member states plus three of the four members of the European Free Trade Association (Efta) – Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Those paths split in 1973, when the UK joined the EC, while Norway and Switzerland stayed in Efta.
Efta is the body that ensures that four European states – Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland – conform with a raft of European Union rules and regulations.
It also has its roots in the process that began as the cold war was coming to an end in the late 1980s, when the then members of the European Free Trade Area (Efta) – Finland, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway –entered into negotiations with what was then the European Community to form the European Economic Area EEAA), extending the single market to Efta.
Such force majeure arguments will be fiercely opposed by the UK Treasury, the Netherlands and the European Commission, all of whom will be represented at the hearing in front of the European Free Trade Association (Efta) court.
It could steer clear of the EEA but join EFTA, which it helped to set up in 1960.
The EFTA court's decision cannot be appealed.
For a country that simply does not want this input, EFTA is the better place to be.THOMAS SIEBERICHSBrusselsSIR Your argument for bestowing the power of constitutional oversight on a Council of Nations rather than the Court of Justice is strong.
When it broke down we formed Efta, but that was no adequate solution, political or economic.
