What Philippe Legrain thinks about tariffs
British political economist and writer; economic adviser to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso from 2011 to 2014; visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics' European Institute; author of Open World, Immigrants and Them and Us.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Philippe Legrain has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWhat Trump called a “declaration of economic independence” is in fact a monumental act of economic and geopolitical vandalism that will harm the whole world, and the US most of all.
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