C. Boyden Gray, the US ambassador to the EU, (...) adds: "What many in the US think is happening is that EU policymakers tolerate a higher level of regulation and then worry that they are putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage. So they seek to export their regulations abroad so that every multinational is subject to the same level [of regulation]."

Of course, here we mistake the push for higher standards as existing to protect consumers, the workforce and the environment. However, in reality  regulations exist only to hinder competitiveness out of the sheer joy of clipping the tallest poppies.

Doh, if only we were all as clear-sighted as those risk-taking plutocrats across the water. Thank goodness our  wiser leaders are working towards undermining this socialistic foolishness

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