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DUTCH Prime Minister Mark Rutte said today that the European Union is not “an unstoppable train speeding towards federalism,” as he urged more deregulation, military spending and harder borders.
Speaking in Berlin, he said that his first proposal for an EU of “prosperity, security and stability” was to “make Europe’s services market truly open.”
He took aim at the “5,000 protected professions in the EU. That’s … 22 per cent of all workers. I say: let’s abolish these protected professions.”
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