Treaty on European Union

Part of Clause 1 – in the House of Commons at 5:30 pm on 13 January 1993.

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Photo of Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn , Islington North 5:30, 13 January 1993

I have listened with great care to what my hon. Friend has said about article 2 and its social objectives. Does he concede that the whole basis of the Maastricht treaty is the establishment of a European central bank which is staffed by bankers, independent of national Governments and national economic policies, and whose sole policy is the maintenance of price stability? That will undermine any social objective that any Labour Government in the United Kingdom—or any other Government—would wish to carry out.

Does my hon. Friend recognise that the imposition of a bankers' Europe on the people of this continent will endanger the cause of socialism in the United Kingdom and in any other country?