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SHINING CITY ON A HILL? There are eight times more protectionists than free traders in the outgoing European Parliament, according to this study written by Fredrik Erixon, Chief Economist at Stockholm think tank Timbro, and Niklas H Rossbach, Research Student at the European University Institute in Florence. The study presents the voting pattern of 384 MEPs from eight Member States on divisions of free trade. Only 12 of the MEPs studied are free traders. Sweden has most free trader MEPs, and France the least. Only one MEP, Spain's Cristina Garcia-Orcoyen Tormo (EPP-ED), has voted as a free trader in every division attended. France, on the...

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