The EU’s founders were driven by a vision. We must renew that sense of purpose, says Green MEP Magid Magid
the EU is far from perfect but it is much more than the present state of its institutional organs. It is above all an ideal of community born out of the ashes of the second world war and cemented by the values at the heart of the hard-fought peace: democracy, partnership, and human rights.
But it is precisely because I love the EU that I am intent on being honest with all those who are a part of it. Far too often the institutions that are meant to serve us fail to live up to our ideals. No doubt this is no different in Brussels than in Westminster, Washington DC or Paris. Citizens across democracies are desperate for the political class that represents them to champion meaningful answers to their most pressing problems. These days the only visible “solutions” on offer in too many democratic capitals are the fake solutions of the right: endless austerity, hate and renewed nationalism.
It is this scourge of nationalism, this contagious preference for scapegoating over dialogue and sustainable co-creation, that is the greatest threat to the European project. Of course, we find this reality starkly visible in the Brexit project, but it is much wider than the UK
