On jobs,health and wildlife, the European Union is often all that stands between us and unfettered corporate powerBy instinct, and like many on the left,I am a European. I recognise that many issues – perhaps most – can no longer be resolved only within our borders. Among them are grave threats to our welfare and our lives: climate change and the collapse of the living world; the spread of epidemics whose vectors are corporations (obesity, diabetes and diseases associated with smoking, and alcohol and air pollution); the global wealth-grab by the very rich; antibiotic resistance; terrorism and clash.
I recognise that the only lega corrective to transnational power is transnational democracy. So I want to believe; I want to belong. But it seems to me that all that is generous about the European Union is being torn down,and all that is obnoxious enhanced and amplified.
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Source: theguardian.com