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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited by Laurent Belsie

May 25, 1983

The 10-nation European Community faces collapse if a growing protectionist trend among member states continues, an economic research group said. The London-based Economist Intelligence Unit said infringements of EC rules on the free circulation of goods are no longer counted in the dozens, but in the hundreds.