On
Thursday, 23 June, a referendum will be held to decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union. When Jacques Delors, then EU
Commission President, announced his vision of a social dimension for European
integration in the late 1980s, in the UK he won large parts of the British
trade unions over into a pro-EU position. Against the background of neo-liberal
restructuring by consecutive Conservative governments, social regulation at the
European level offered advances, which would have been impossible in a purely
domestic context. Is this situation still the case today?
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| Photo by Descrier |
In
this post, I will first assess the current state of affairs for social
policies in the EU. Then I will focus on the dangers of nationalism and
xenophobic reactions to migration, implied in a no-vote, before concluding in
the third section that the focus of the debate should be redirected on what kind
of EU we want, rather than the issue of further or less integration.
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