European Affairs

Just for the record, has the hon. Gentleman come across the extremely important work in which Roland Vaubel deals with that problem—in relation to not only manufacturing, but all legislation that affects employment and social law—and demonstrates that regulatory collusion exists? It is a very serious work by a professor of economics at Mannheim university. He demonstrates the manipulation of majority voting, which will be made worse by co-decision, as a result of which certain countries get their way by using the institutional system that the Minister so foolishly says is unimportant. That is how people serve their own interests.