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To err is human; to persist, diabolical. That could apply to any of the many reports that Parliament dedicates to globalisation and its impact, bemoaning its negative effects but offering no definitive solution except giving Brussels, and Europe, more powers. It has never questioned globalisation itself, or the way in which it has been imposed on us by Brussels.
That, though, is the real problem. The European Union is sacrificing our jobs, our industries, our agriculture and our social protection systems on the altar of global free trade and the dogma of international competition; it does not protect our economies from unfair competition or social or monetary dumping, or from piracy and counterfeiting; it does not support our businesses when they are faced with multiple tariff and non-tariff barriers in the competing countries where they want to trade, or when they are faced with increased competition at home, because our economies are some of the most open in the world; it piles on the disabling standards and regulations.
The inescapable conclusion: Europe is the fall guy in the farce of globalisation, and the citizens of Europe are its main victims. It is time for their interests to take precedence over the utopian pursuit of ultraliberal dogmas."@en1
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