I'm British. So why am I standing for a seat in the European elections? | Graham Watson

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : They exploit social media algorithms to spread anti-EU propaganda.
58% : Until Brexit, my UK passport gave me the right to work and reside anywhere in the EU.
55% : Twenty years ago, together with the then president of the EU, Romano Prodi, I created a new powerful political group in the European parliament: the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
50% : Italy produced Altiero Spinelli, one of the founding fathers of the EU, and the likely future Commission president Mario Draghi.
50% : To show that it practises what it preaches about EU citizenship, Italy's former EU affairs minister Sandro Gozi is seeking re-election to the European parliament in France with Emmanuel Macron, while I have been selected to stand in North East Italy.
48% : I had not expected to be called out of a semi-retirement of teaching postgraduate students at the University of Toronto about the EU.
37% : As a Brexit refugee, I am dismayed to discover the same forces at work in Italy as I saw in the UK: rightwing political activists determined to break up the EU.

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