As the presidential election reaches the home stretch, the Obama and Romney campaigns have made clear their single-minded focus: fixing the economy. But to achieve that goal, the next president must take seriously the pressing need for a full free-trade agreement between the United States and the European Union. President Obama recognizes that Europe’s economic troubles have a “significant impact” on our own economy. “As our largest trading partner,” he explained at the G20 summit in June, “slower growth in Europe means slower growth in American jobs. So we have a profound interest in seeing Europe prosper.”
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