[rhetoric] free protectionist trade

Hope I won't be in trouble for this but don't you just love the rhetoric?

…Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France said they would urge their European Union partners to develop a joint “foreign economic policy”…

Read: shut the Yanks, Russkies and Chinks out whilst Europe gets free access*.

* Read: France and Germany

…the two leaders said such a policy would buttress the EU’s Lisbon strategy on improving the bloc’s competitiveness…

Read: shut the Yanks, Russkies and Chinks out whilst Europe gets free access*.

* Read: France and Germany

…While reaffirming their belief in open markets as “the guarantor” of prosperity, they expressed concern that the use of non-tariff barriers and restrictions to investments and the political manipulation of exchange rates had reached a “preoccupying scale”…

Read: shut the Yanks, Russkies and Chinks out whilst Europe gets free access*.

* Read: France and Germany

…“This is about reciprocity,” Ms Merkel told a press conference. “We are for open markets but they should be open everywhere.”…

Read: shut the Yanks, Russkies and Chinks out whilst Europe gets free access*.

* Read: France and Germany

…Paris wants the EU to be more assertive in ensuring equal access to markets, particularly in regard to public procurement…

Read: shut the Yanks, Russkies and Chinks out whilst Europe gets free access*.

* Read: France and Germany

Don't you just love the world of trade? Pro-protection here. Anti-protection here.