About three years ago I happened to come across a magazine called The Inquirer and an article caught my attention: ‘Are EU policies designed not to work?’ After the last European elections it makes me think how right the author was in posing that question.

Over the last five years, the European Parliament has been so focused on human rights, social rights, discrimination, workers’ rights, consumer rights and so on that its members have forgotten about the main issue, that is, economic growth and the creation jobs.

Well, what is the point of having all of your social rights in place and safeguarded when you don’t even have a job?

Is the European Parliament expecting us to feed our children a piece of paper with their rights written on it?

Sometimes it’s not about just doing the right thing but about getting one’s priorities in order and I just hope that the new Parliament that has been voted through will start looking at things from a different perspective.

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