Economy, Property, Finance and Work
Corporations, Industry and Competition
Large enterprises are legitimate where their scale is necessary or useful. What policy restrains is abusive dominance, not size as such.
Policy catalogueEconomy, Property, Finance and Work
Trade and Economic Sovereignty
Trade compatible with national resilience and fair competition — neither dependence on a single supplier nor the pretence that a country can make everything itself.
Position
Restore Europa supports international trade compatible with national economic resilience, fair competition and the preservation of strategically important productive capabilities. A country should not pursue total economic autarky where specialization and trade provide substantial benefits.
Critical dependencies should be assessed deliberately rather than discovered during a crisis, through supply-chain resilience, strategic inventories, diversified sourcing and appropriate domestic production capacity. Measures concerning trade and investment must be reviewed against the European and international obligations that apply to them.
Policy
4 commitments
- Assess critical dependencies in supply chains before they become strategic vulnerabilities.
- Hold strategic inventories and diversify sourcing for essential goods.
- Preserve domestic production capacity where a capability is strategically important.
- Review trade and investment measures against applicable European and international obligations.
Limits and unresolved details
- Autarky is not the objective; specialization and trade are accepted where the benefit is substantial.
- Resilience is not a general licence to shelter industry that is merely uncompetitive.
Manifesto basis
Related positions
Economy, Property, Finance and Work
Economic Order
An order founded on private property, productive work and the widespread ownership of capital: distributist in ownership, corporatist in organization, subsidiary in administration.
Economy, Property, Finance and Work
Work
Work has dignity but is not the purpose of human existence. Economic progress should increase security, leisure and command over one's own life.
Economy, Property, Finance and Work
Private Property and Broad Ownership
Property is a source of independence and responsibility. The answer to concentration is wider ownership, not the abolition of property.