Think labor protection, enhanced social welfare, smoke-free workplaces, equal pay legislation, holiday entitlement, and the right not to work more than a 48-hour week without overtime.
Also consumer protection, product safety, enhanced policing, food labelling, bans on growth hormones, trade ties, environmental legislation, price transparency, work placements.
Oh and just the small matter of how free movement of labor has benefited millions, as have portable pensions and access to health care. Not bad for the yearly cost of just 260 pounds ($378.85) a household.
For 60 years, the E.U. has been the foundation of peace between European neighbors after centuries of bloodshed. It has assisted the political, social, and economic transformation of 14 former dictatorships. This union is now facing significant upheaval, along with a possible decline in the perks we have had as a member state for the past 43 years.
