Letters: MEPs Jude Kirton-Darling and Agnes Jongerius highlight the EU’s achievements, Margaret O’Brien points to issues of parental leave, and Peter Graham says the UK was a leader in health and safety before the EU became active in this area
Larry Elliott’s column argues that social Europe “never delivered all that much”. Europe may not yet be the socialist paradise we want it to become, but dismissing all its achievements on workers’ rights is a costly mistake. Elliott’s piece does not mention the most symbolic of all EU labour regulations: the working time directive. A longstanding obsession of the Tories and neoliberals in Britain, it remains the only standard applicable in the UK protecting workers against longer hours.
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