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Mood for change is in the air

THE adage that there are decades when nothing happens and weeks where decades happen probably needs updating after the last 24 hours.

Hostility and antipathy towards the EU as an institution has been growing as its neoliberal character has become more and more evident.

In France a poll just last week showed 61 per cent of the population are hostile to the EU. For those in the labour movement looking for an example of how to defend the small number of individual labour rights claimed to be guaranteed by EU statute need look no further than across the Channel for an example.

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