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Europe cannot keep the world's strictest environmental and social rules, invest less than its competitors and run a more naive trade policy, and still expect to create jobs.

Drawn from what Emmanuel Macron said

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What Emmanuel Macron actually said

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    Emmanuel Macron 25 Apr 2024

    We cannot sustain the most stringent environmental and social norms, invest less than our competitors, have a more naive trade policy than them and think that we will continue to generate jobs. This no longer holds together.

    Speech on Europe, Sorbonne, 25 April 2024 (Elysee English transcript)elysee.fr

First recorded here 25 Apr 2024 · How quotes work

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