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Yep, good read.

One note "Europe’s refusal to allow state aid to industry, making it the only major economic bloc that has no effective industrial strategy"

France has never given a flying fuck about this and has saved their own industries several times. If the UK want they can ignore it.

The EU as a trade block is indeed very neolib atm :/>

The sad thing is, it's chiefly been the UK lobbying to stop having controls imposed on China.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/30/britain-sacrifices-steel-industry-to-curry-favour-with-china/

What we know is that the British government has for the last three years been blocking efforts by the EU to equip itself with the sort of anti-dumping weaponry used by Washington to confront China.
The EU trade directorate has been rendered toothless by a British veto. So much for the canard that the UK has no influence in Brussels.
"The British are sacrificing an entire European industry to say thank you to China for signing up to the nuclear power project at Hinkley Point, and pretending it is about free trade," said one official in Brussels bitterly.
What they are blocking is a change to an EU regulation intended to beef up Europe's 'trade defence instruments' (TDI), enabling it to respond much more quickly to Chinese dumping and too impose much tougher penalties.
The British have cobbled together a blocking minority in the council, much to the annoyance of the French, Italians, Spanish, and Germans.

JWestland
Yep, good read.

One note "Europe’s refusal to allow state aid to industry, making it the only major economic bloc that has no effective industrial strategy"

France has never given a flying fuck about this and has saved their own industries several times. If the UK want they can ignore it.

So much this! The, "they wont let us" bollocks is tiresome.