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GEOPOLITICS
The helped the U.S. economy surged MICROSITE | VIDEO
silent over 20 points from 2016 to 2017.
majority In Europe, you see a similar trend. and to overcome those messages
that A recent Eurobarometer study of the anti-capitalist hard left
favours showed that 73% of all EU citizens who seek to scaremonger and
view free trade as positive and a misinform about what a more
free similar study showed that more open trading system could mean
trade than sixty percent of Europeans for working people. We need to
think that globalisation is an show that free trade gives them
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, opportunity for economic growth. jobs, opportunities, cheaper goods
CEO OF RASMUSSEN GLOBAL, and services, and better products.
FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL It’s time to take a more nuanced
OF NATO AND PRIME approach to trade policy. After It’s time to give the majority a
MINISTER OF DENMARK all, free trade brings net benefits voice and start a new conversation
for both societies and people; but with the public about the benefits
It’s a frequently repeated message adjustments to trade patterns of an open, liberal trading system.
that globalisation and free trade can also leave communities and Done in the right way, free trade
has gone out of fashion. How else individuals behind, with the gains acts as a rising tide that lifts all
do you explain the success of the dispersed widely and the losses boats. Policy-makers should stop
Vote Leave campaign in the EU often concentrated locally. The treating free trade as a problem
referendum in the United Kingdom right policies are needed to create and instead have the courage to
and the rise of Donald Trump? a more solid basis for future trade defend and pursue the benefits of
But perhaps the answer is less so that everybody can see that it, taking their voters along with
clear cut. A Pew Research Center the international trading system is them.
survey from November 2017 shows creating prosperity for everyone,
that a majority of Americans (56 based on common rules and Speaking Topics:
percent) believe NAFTA is “good reciprocity. But, as well as making
for the U.S.,” and only 33 percent sure that free trade is also fair, • International Security
say it is bad. And the percentage it’s also time for Western political Challenges
of Republicans saying that trade leaders to begin proudly standing
up for the benefits of free trade • Geopolitical Changes,
Europe’s Role
• Leadership in a Troubled
World
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