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BRITISH steel workers marching in Brussels with their comrades from other European Union member states are right to feel let down both by the EU and the Westminster government.
Both organisations are wedded to a neoliberal economic approach that promotes maximisation of private profits through free trade and holding down workers’ pay and social benefits.
The EU is pressing ahead with negotiations to finalise the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the US, which will deny nation states the ability to defend their economies against unfair competition.
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
