The EU is a protectionist economic bloc dominated by Germany and France. It is also a political union intent on morphing into a federalised United States of Europe, where European sovereign nation states are abolished and a central power in Brussels dictates all policy.
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Unlike other trade blocs around the world, such as ASEAN for example, member states are prohibited from sealing their own bilateral comprehensive free trade agreements with other countries outside the bloc. Because Trade is an EU Commission competence.
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The EU's protectionism hampers African economic growth by attracting raw commodities tariff-free yet placing hefty tariffs on processed commodities. It swamps Africa with subsidised food (chickens, for example), undercutting local African farmers. The EU is not benign.
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