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November 14, 2006
Err, Really?
Civitas has a series of briefing papers on the European Union, aimed at schooldchildren. This is from the Arguments for the EU paper.
One major example of this is
in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks, where global trading rules and
standards, including tariffs, are set and monitored. When the EU negotiates on behalf of its
members in this organisation, it represents the world’s biggest single market
and as a result has more influence. Other nations are much keener to make concessions to the EU than to
individual member states as they see the rewards of gaining access to the EU
market as much greater than the rewards of gaining access to any individual
national market.
Beg Pardon? It is an argument in favour of the European Union that they negotiate upon trade matters as mercantilists? That they are only 189 years out of date?
Blimey, people must be getting desperate if that's on the plus side.
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Civitas has released a new set of balanced student worksheets on the EU. Great idea, but what about this line in worksheet 4, paragraph 1:
The EU represents one of the greatest experiments in political history.For the first time nations ... [Read More]
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That exact same document also says:
"For the first time [in history] nations have chosen to surrender aspects of their national sovereignty to a central body ..."
Which is obviously horse manure since at least one fairly well known nation was formed by exactly the same process.
(because my trackback doesn't work for some reason:
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Posted by: Daniel Lucraft | Nov 14, 2006 6:22:53 PM
