Saturday 19 May 2018

(1) Wynne Godley on Europe, Lack of Central Government and Free Trade Hypocrisy

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... it is essential to break out of the vicious circle of 'negative integration' — the process by which power is progressively removed from individual governments without there being any positive, organic, all-European alternative to transcend it ...

Wynne Godley

In this article (see below) Godley also points to the disingenuous side of those demanding free trade ("the double standards of so many "free traders""):

There has not even been free trade in food within the EC; quite the contrary — there is an elaborate and obscure system of internal tariffs and subsidies which protects particular interests in a covert and outrageously expensive way. 

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See also (1) EU — The Left's Treason and (2) EU — Balance the Economy, Not the Budget

Continued here.

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