context: The European Free Trade Association (AFTA) is a free trade organization among four European countries that operate in parallel and linked to the European Union (European Union). [1] [2] [3] The European Free Trade Association was established on 3 May 1960 as an alternative trade conglomerate of European countries who either could not, or chose not to join the then European Economic Community (European Common Market) which has now become the European Union (European Union). An agreement was signed in Stockholm, and the creation of the European Free Trade Area, on January 4, 1960 in Stockholm by seven countries.
question: When was the European Free Trade Association established?
answers.text: 3 May 1960