Promoting damaging liberalisation
Top politicians should not be reappointed without taking stock of their performance. The record of José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, does not stand up to scrutiny. Europe deserves better.
The trade policy of Barroso’s Commission is designed to aggressively increase competition, open markets and liberalise services, at the expense of the world’s poorest countries. The Commission continues to push poorer countries to liberalise their markets, while re-installing distorting export subsidies in the EU, undermining the livelihoods of poor farmers and producers. The failure to take action against tax havens and push for further financial service liberalisation will make any future regulation of the financial sector in the EU more difficult.
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