Global perspective on protection, competition and growth within the EU

Global Vision is a non-partisan campaign group that believes Britain needs to negotiate a looser, more modern relationship with the EU to reflect the rapidly changing world of the 21st century. The new relationship should be based on trade and cooperation, whilst opting out of political and economic union.

Abstract: The EU’s protectionism not only reduces living standards by a steady fraction due to the inefficiency in production and consumption; it also retards growth by putting barriers to the inflow of new capital and technology into new sectors of the economy. It is time we did something about it – either by making much more trouble inside the EU to strengthen the hand of those with consumer interests at heart, or by asking for the return of powers over trade and competition so that we can bring down these barriers ourselves.