31/01/2008 9:26:14 am
European Parliament. I am currently in the European Parliament in Brussels, where I was the speaker at a Breakfast Meeting arranged by European Enterprise Institute. There, it was also announced formally that I have agreed to be a Senior Fellow at the Institute. The topic this morning was the publication "What Competition Has Done for Europe", by me. Very well attended, not least by Members of Parliament. And message well received.

Yesterday, we had another sign of the need for more support for free competition, this time in international trade. The EU banned beef from Brazil from the entire European market. The EU had demanded to choose which farms in Brazil that would be alloed to export to the EU. Why not let consumers make that choice?

Now off for a series of meetings before flying to Stockholm late afternoon.