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Europeans give their verdict on the European Union and why they feel it is necessary to reconsider

Peter McGowan, 74, a retired British

m 'of a steel workers in the 70s and family, I was a union leader in the steelworks in Corby, then became an adviser to Labour. Harold Wilson was in power and they are the first step in developing a strategy of free trade through the then EEC. I was a true follower of this strategy and writes a column in the local newspaper that says a lot. I thought of a free trade agreement would be useful not only for the steel industry but for all industries in the country, bringing more business opportunities and more. The feeling at the time was one of friendly cooperation, and there was also the feeling that the EU could prevent future wars.

grow, born in 1939 and we were very aware of the war had hurt him. One of the good things about the idea of ??the European Union was to eliminate that kind of fear, so that people can live in peace and prosperity. We were looking for the prosperity of trading nations, a large market for our products and alliances with other nations.

the late '70s, I became the deputy chief of Corby Borough Council and encourages us friendship agreements between Corby and cities in Germany and France. I had a very positive relationship and others encouraged the city to develop.

When steel began to be closed to work hard to ensure that Corby had access to European funds to help out the situation. And it did make a difference with the money available to buy the site of the steel and to restore to alternative industrial uses. But in 90 years things have really changed, had repeated doses of the law and the decisions taken in Brussels, which had a direct impact on the Council's ability to fulfill its function. It has become an octopus with its tentacles into every area of ??our lives that was not in favor of it. I began to wonder: "Who makes these decisions What you take Who has the right to make decisions that affect our daily lives"

I hope that we move away from the EU, I do not see any alternative. Some people try to convince people that it would be detrimental to the UK economy if we did, but do not think that is the case. We are an island that can work easily with the rest of the world, and no reason not to be able to do it on our own terms. We lost control and we must return to govern us, that's why I joined Ukip, which have a common sense approach to solve these problems. We can not even expel terrorists in this country, because we are seeing the European law takes precedence over UK law, which I think is something that many former supporters could never have imagined. Europe has nothing to do with democracy, it is the employees who are paid extra wages and nobody knows anything.

Bruno Cabral, Portuguese freelance television producer

Whore "I joined the troika (the trio of the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the heads of the European Central Bank) for months, when he organized a large demonstration of related persons to culture. 've brought together more than 20 bands and the event began with an orchestra. symphony's something we have not seen in Portugal since April 1974 (when the dictatorship ended.) met people I knew and I never imagined myself in the street.

I can not conceive of politics as something that is going to vote every few years and then leave our lives in the hands of politicians. The Troika group fuck does not belong to any political party. This is a large group, including many types of views and generations united in a common goal: to remove the Conservative government Pedro Passos Coelho, who is a puppet of the troika, and also to remove the Troika and stop these austerity policies that do nothing, but the population increasingly poor. It is true that these cuts are inevitable. It was a trap to the right, an excuse to win elections. And people are starting to cotton to this illusion - this is not the solution solves nothing

The problem is that the Portuguese Socialist Party, like other socialist Europeans reached the third way, people disappointed and disillusioned. Fuck the Troika has replaced the class unions, bringing people together under a flag of the Union. Unions are not to blame, it is the social reality, with all the poor world, everyone stopped, all working without a contract of indefinite duration far exceeded unions now

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Christopher Dague, 39, French postman

When I walked into the post office in the early 1990s, Europe, we discovered was the European Jacques Delors. A Europe with his own project. To build the single market to resist globalization, but without forgetting the construction of adequate social base

Twenty years later, signs of the EU that I send seems to be negative: the European citizenship is more advanced setting, it even became a time to return to national states and Parliament - the only institution directly elected by the people - is down

've been a member of the CFDT union since 2003 and has been an official of the Paris office for one year. The CFDT is a progressive pro-European union, but do not assume that the pro-European idea of ??a militant transmitted automatically to the next. Questions about Europe have become so complex that they are now the preserve of experts and are not widely discussed by our members.

When we educate the European rights to an employment tribunal, the stronger the more exotic is rejected. It is difficult in these conditions to remain enthusiastic. So I started with tours of the European institutions in Brussels for our members. There you have a better idea of ??how things are going, or at least that European leaders and officials who criticize are serious people who are trying to make things happen.

So is Europe itself than me, but decisions disappoint. The process itself, with the heads of state acting alone and without accountability and austerity at all costs taking place across the continent policy.

do not want to define myself as a skeptic, because I know that the European project is a long and difficult process. I am also aware that when most are right policy decisions are not always necessarily for me. I'm a little disappointed, but forgive. We, members of the French unions have had our problems, according to the five EU partners with divergent interests. Now we have 27.

Brazzale Roberto, 50, entrepreneur Italian cheese

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