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The US business community shares a common goal to help European society maximize the opportunities of globalization and technological change. Business should work with policymakers and stakeholders to proactively shape globalization to its values and interests and promote a better future for EU businesses and citizens, including by anticipating and responding to changes brought on by the rapidly evolving global economy. The EU should also continue to endorse and seek to reinforce the European unity and values that make it a crucial market for US companies and an excellent place to invest. This includes playing a constructive role in promoting an EU trade policy that is effective, adaptable, and implementable for businesses and citizens.
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A January 2016 Oxfam report found that the richest 1% now has more wealth than the rest of the world combined.
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Cecilia Malmström at the occasion of a Bruegel lunch talk on “The future of EU trade policy,” Brussels, 24 January 2017.
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Just 27% of Greeks held a favorable view of the EU at the end of 2016. Citizens in key countries such as France, Spain, and the United Kingdom also hold more unfavorable than favorable views of Europe according to a Pew Research Center survey.
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Opinion 2/15, European Court of Justice, 16 May 2017 (http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=190727&doclang=EN).
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Adamson, T. (2019). Shaping Globalization: Trade Policy and the Role of US Business. In: Dialer, D., Richter, M. (eds) Lobbying in the European Union. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98800-9_25
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