![]() The furnaces and their supporting industries employ about 40,000 people in an impoverished part of Wales. About a week later Tata Steel announced that it was closing its steel blast furnaces in Port Talbot. One country exercised its veto and blocked the change - the UK. The intention was to raise tariffs on steel to combat dumping in the European market by Chinese manufacturers selling below cost. In another own goal, the EU recently tried to cancel a rule that prohibited the raising of certain tariffs. This grouping is one of the smaller groupings in the Parliament, which renders about a third of the UK's European representation powerless. Instead, Cameron formed a new coalition with far right, mainly eastern European anti-Federalist parties. This is also, by far, the largest bloc in the Parliament. Shortly after becoming Conservative party leader, David Cameron took the Tories out of the European People's Party, the European Parliamentary group that consists of other centre right parties across Europe (note for Americans: centre right in Europe is slightly to the right of Bernie Sanders). We also seem to delight in hamstringing our influence in Europe. We are reluctant members at the best of times, as this referendum shows. Having said this, I would suggest that the UK isn't really taking its membership of the EU very seriously. I have no doubt that the UK is better off remaining in the EU, and the EU is better off with the UK as a member. On 23 June, British citizens (including me) have the opportunity to vote on whether Britain should remain a member of the European Union.
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