A Quote by Frans Timmermans
Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.
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In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more destructive than protectionism. It cuts off markets, eliminates trade, causes unemployment in the export industries all over the world, depresses the prices of export commodities, especially farm products of the United States. It is the crowning folly of government intervention.
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