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"This report brings together many of the proclamations and clichés of free trade dogma. As such, it is only natural and understandable that it associates so-called European trade policy with the Europe 2020 strategy. In summary, the result is a tired apology for neoliberalism, which not even the deep crisis in which we are mired seems to have diluted. What we have here is a wearisome repetition of statements that do not just lack substantiation, but are completely disproven by reality; for example, that ‘trade opening goes together with employment and job creation’. However, since this fiction cannot survive contact with reality, it is acknowledged that the public can see that the complete opposite is true, so it calls for ‘a better communication strategy on the Union’s trade policy and the advantages and disadvantages of international trade’.
The truth is that no communication strategy can hide the real effects of free trade. What is needed is a change in policy and trade policy is no different. Trade policy should be founded on complementarity, and on fair and equitable trade relations, and should serve development and the peoples, rather than multinationals, big business and the financial sector."@en1
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