### Comment:
By running what should be a common market like a protection racket. By constantly overreaching. By never seeking democratic mandate for their actions. By seeking to create through subversion what they know would never be accepted by any populace in Europe. 
  
 I'm glad you are openly admitting that they are a protectionist bloc, as they are the antithesis of a free market. WSB subscribers should be celebrating.

### REPLY:
Refer to my other comment. Largest trading bloc in the world, free trade deals signed with +70 third countries... yet somehow is protectionist and the “antithesis of a free market”.  
  
 There is not more free trade outside the EU than inside it. Otherwise some economists might have supported it. As it happens, not a single one worth their salt does.

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