EU Welfare and Why It Doesn't Work (re-run, in German)
Posted on Thursday, 17 May, 2007
In my series of re-runs, here is an article that I originally wrote for the free-market think-tank formerly known as liberalismus.at (now: liberty.li). I argue that EU welfare policies are a bad idea and that open borders and markets benefit disadvantaged regions and individuals much more than EU hand-outs. Since so-called “social standards” ultimately deprive poor regions or countries of the flexibility required to compete with the rest of the EU and mainly serve to protect jobs in the rich, over-regulated EU member states, they would in fact preserve social discrepancies on this continent rather than help overcome them.
Categories: Free Thought, Free Markets
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