Hvordan EU kan redde verden

The Guardian har en glimrende kommentar i dag, og minner oss på hvorfor EU finnes. I fellesskap får man til det ingen land kan gjøre alene. Så som å forplikte seg til å kutte CO2-utslippene. For de som ikke vil lese hele artikkelen, sjekk ut dette:

What has cramped any response is what Environment Secretary David Miliband has called the 'after you, Claude' syndrome. Any one country has been frightened that if it takes a bold and costly line by leading, then others will take advantage of it. Step forward the EU, some adroit political leadership and a growing intellectual and cultural conviction that there has to be change and the 'after you' blockage has been decisively broken.

The EU was founded to try to deliver collective European benefits that no one country could achieve alone. The forerunner of the European Economic Community was the European Coal and Steel Community, established to maximise the signatories' access to each other's coal deposits and steel markets. Today, carbon remains centre stage, in a diametrically different way.