02/03/2017 (Agence Europe) – In a column published in the media on Thursday 2 March during European Industry Day, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Industry Elżbieta Bieńkowska and her counterpart responsible for Growth and Competitiveness, Jyrki Katainen, stated that, “We will never advocate a ‘buy European only’ policy. Closing the doors to foreign competition is a populist quick fix that might work for a short while. But in the long run, it will simply cut European industry out of global value chains and the cutting edge of technological development”. They are both aware that the benefits of globalisation are not always fairly distributed and they called for a more robust approach to defending European jobs by applying anti-dumping measures to tackle unfair trade practices. (MB)