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vicamire

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Because of competitiveness pressures, trade liberalisation will result (at best) in political drag on environmental policy making by governments, and (at worst) in an environmental ‘race to the bottom’ through competitive deregulation.

Debido a las presiones de competitividad, la liberalizacion del comercio resultara (a lo mejor) en politicas ...

drag on: alargarse pero no se como unir en este contexto ?¿?


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In this case "drag on" is not a unitary idiom (meaning alargarse or prolongarse). "Drag" here is a noun; it means something that slows down or hinders something else. So trade liberalization is creating a "drag" on environmental policy, slowing it down, making it more difficult to achieve.
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