Candid and realistic assessment by Danny Nicol (Professor of Public Law at the University of Westminster) of the implausibility of a "social Europe" on Left Futures website: http://www.leftfutures.org/2016/04/implausibility-of-a-social-europe/
It should be required reading for all those lefties who are thinking of voting Remain.
Particularly pay attention to the paragraph: EU Treaties provide no means of discarding the TTIP; and the other reforms would require a complete absence of neoliberal governments throughout the EU. Sadly these policies are so heavily protected against repeal that a “Social Europe” is in practise impossible to achieve. No doubt “another Europe is possible” – but outside the European Union.
It should be required reading for all those lefties who are thinking of voting Remain.
Particularly pay attention to the paragraph: EU Treaties provide no means of discarding the TTIP; and the other reforms would require a complete absence of neoliberal governments throughout the EU. Sadly these policies are so heavily protected against repeal that a “Social Europe” is in practise impossible to achieve. No doubt “another Europe is possible” – but outside the European Union.
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