The concept of the European Union as a ‘super-state’ seems to leave many people muddled. I can see the positive view of those allowed to travel abroad to work, but the actions of the central bodies; unelected and yet superseding the individual states, are often simply ignored. The expanded role of the European Central Bank (acting independently of state controls) is to impose the demands of lenders on states. ‘The market’ will decide is is a good or a bad risk to be lent to again, via the medium of the ECB. States who bailed out their banks with public money must be forced to hold their tax-payers captive to the demands of the banks that failed in the first place; causing a spike in debt. In this way capital holds all states in its grip and ultimately,  via austerity, whole electorates as indentured slaves.