Former prime minister Tony Blair makes a speech on progressive politics in an era of populism at the Royal Academy in London, November 14, 2018. Victoria Jones/Press Association. All rights reserved.
Nothing can be more wrong for Britain, the British people and Europe than a second referendum between “Remain in the EU vs. a Canadian-style free trade agreement”. The Labour Party’s policy towards the EU should be an internationalist policy against the current ordoliberal EU dominated by Germany.1.
People may not know what ordoliberalism means in the EU context. Ordoliberalism is a form of neo-liberal rule-making that emanated intellectually in Germany and Austria in the inter-war period. It then dominated post-war Germany under the economic policy of “social market economy” and began entering the European Treaties by way of transplanting German ordoliberal principles in them, the French position being outflanked in secret negotiations since the early 1960s.2. These principles are:
