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The EU Commission has already adopted a 'one-in, one-out' rule for regulations — following a similar policy by Donald Trump during his term as US president (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

The EU Commission has written a blank cheque to corporate CEOs

We in Europe have become accustomed to progressives in the United States looking to us for inspiration.

Higher standards of workers' rights and lower levels of inequality are what is meant to mark our social market economy out from what often seems like Wild West capitalism pursued across the Atlantic.

But, in recent months, these roles have been dramatically reversed.

While president Joe Biden has made the creation of "good-paying, union jobs" a priority, the European Union...

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Esther Lynch is general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, which represents 45 million members from 93 trade union organisations in 41 European countries.

The EU Commission has already adopted a 'one-in, one-out' rule for regulations — following a similar policy by Donald Trump during his term as US president (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

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Esther Lynch is general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, which represents 45 million members from 93 trade union organisations in 41 European countries.

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