What's left "full employment and social progress" ? Those are just words of no practical value. How about "truth, justice and the American way" or "let's just all be friends" while we're at it.
I say scrap the EU if it's no longer committed to one of the most basic rules that governs a common market.
In the original constitution, one of the Union's main objectives was listed as "an internal market where competition is free and undistorted". France has now persuaded Berlin to put a full stop after the words "internal market" in the new treaty. Last night Britain appeared unwilling to put up a fight on the issue and German officials downplayed the significance of the move, arguing that the concept appeared 13 times elsewhere in the Union's legal texts.
Last night Britain appeared unwilling to put up a fight on the issue and German officials downplayed the significance of the move, arguing that the concept appeared 13 times elsewhere in the Union's legal texts.
If the EU no longer makes a point (or even a pretense) of striving for undistorted competition then the internal market is useless sham for the benefit of "elite" insiders.
Like I said, scrap it altogether.
All too often, the positive consequences of pursuing what is labelled as "competition" is taken as read, when an analysis of the real impacts would show that what has been labelled "competition" is partial, or competition among those without economic power to the benefit of those with economic power, rather than to the broader public benefit. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
