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The road to economic serfdom
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Without European “followership”, America ceases to be a leader

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

The bloc is done playing nicely

It’s time the continent’s more ambitious nations left the rest behind, writes Ulrike Malmendier

Brussels takes on the red-tape gusher

Tight regulation is largely to blame