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special economic zones
Generally very bad news, a favourite policy tool of corruption, e.g. in planning ('urban development corporations'), or as we are seeing in those 'freeports'. Basically, they don't dare change the law overall, so they punch little holes in it and create areas that are more or less unaccountable and that they hope will be under less scrutiny. There are all sorts of variations on the same theme globally.
https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/time-do-away-special-economic-zones.pdf
Being in the EU did not stop us setting up this zones if we had wanted to
Not quite, but Sunak already had form:
Rishi Sunak, the chief secretary to the UK Treasury, inaccurately claimed on Monday that “the EU is pretty much the only place in the world that doesn’t use free ports”. In reality, the EU’s customs code does allow for free ports or zones and there are 82 of them across the countries that are subject to its regulations.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/10/eu-clamps-down-free-ports-zones-crime-terror-links
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Oliver Schick
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Channel hopping and saw Sunak on what I'm a assuming is another debate, just as he told another lie. This time about their special economic zones which were set up using new Brexit freedoms and attracting billions I'm investment.
He cannot stop lying. Being in the EU did not stop us setting up this zones if we had wanted to and we've seen no sign of billions of investment. We have seen £100m of public money going into the one in the north east however, with the private owners taking £10s millions out in profit instantly.