And Who Wants Socialism?
Perhaps what should have been the world's biggest free trade zone became the world's biggest regulatory-stagnation, high-tax, welfare-state disincentive zone.
https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-puzzle-of-europe.html?m=1
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