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O'Grady slams EU elite bid to outdo far-right
Blaming jobless and migrants 'delivers little'
Europe has lost its appeal to ordinary people as political leaders dodge real issues in a scramble to "outdo extremists," TUC leader Frances O'Grady said yesterday.
Ms O'Grady's shot at the European elite was made in front of an audience of hundreds of workers at the annual congress of Germany's trade union body in Berlin.
The city houses the Bundestag federal parliament from which Chancellor Angela Merkel has planned and imposed harsh austerity policies upon the continent.
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