European governments have reacted to the worst Continent-wide deterioration in economic performance in several generations with a plethora of interventions. Not all of these interventions are nationality-blind, that is, some seek to overtly or covertly discriminate against foreign commercial entities or workers. Worse, as Richard Baldwin and I have recently argued (in our recent voxEU collection of such matters titled “The collapse of global trade, murky protectionism, and the crisis: Recommendations for the G20”, available at www.voxeu.org), some of the very measures taken to stimulate national economies have discrimination against foreigners buried within them.
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