The ‘Left’ will stand a
chance if it relaunches an agenda of social rights and supranationalism. After
all, they are the most logical responses to neoliberalism and nationalism.
What
happens in these two countries matters and deserves much more attention. It is
also time to re-assess the forces at play in Europe and claim a more equal
union.
The WTO has to be reformed and updated, not discarded.
And the EU should play its part, while at the same time promoting its own
industrial growth.
On the
one hand, the Trump administration aims at strengthening the US economy and
armed forces; on the other, it intends to turn its back on the rest of the
world.
