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"For years, the US has been the champion of free trade, insofar as this means that others have to open up their markets for American products without import restrictions. There is a continuous threat of trade wars if American products are subjected to requirements in terms of the environment and consumer protection. The EU has largely adopted this free trade ideology. However, it is becoming increasingly evident that this free trade too is subordinate to American self-interest and is only supported if it leads to the favouring of American companies. The leading group in America considers its own country to be the best in the world. Like the Soviet Union and China in the past, the US derive from this pretension the right to do everything they do not allow others to do. Accordingly, international impunity is demanded for American war criminals, unilateral threats are made to use nuclear weapons and European steel is banned from the American market by means of an import levy.
One of the lessons the EU should draw from this is that free-trade ideology leads to accidents. Europe should focus more on economic self-sufficiency, in other words autarchy, rather than on promoting imports, exports, globalisation and growing mutual dependence on the US and Japan. This is the best way to steer clear of any trade wars and economic instability imported from outside Europe."@en1
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