The EU Commission has written a blank cheque to corporate CEOs

We in Europe have become accustomed to progressives in the United States looking to us for inspiration.

Higher standards of workers' rights and lower levels of inequality are what is meant to mark our social market economy out from what often seems like Wild West capitalism pursued across the Atlantic.

But, in recent months, these roles have been dramatically reversed.

While president Joe Biden has made the creation of "good-paying, union jobs" a priority, the European Union...