Tax competition and tax harmonisation

Social dumping should be answered by the use of trade defence instruments

AK sees no evident need for a further regulation

With the strategy paper „Global Europe – Competing in the World“, dated October 2006, the European Union presents a reorientation of the Common Commercial Policy. It moves the accent away from the multilateral WTO negotiations to the bilateral approach. The Federal Chamber of Labour (BAK) on the other hand prefers multilateral negotiations compared to bilateral ones, as bilateral free trade agreements undermine WTO negotiations.