The countries are referred to as economies and the citizenary as consumers.
The political parties need to win elections. To contest and win elections they need vast amounts of money.
The businesses particularly the corporations are funding the parties.
The politicians are endonding as pawns in the hands of corporations and under such circumstances they can not exercise their minds and free will.
People are having multiple citizenship and as a result their loyality is divided to multiple countries.
The sovereignity is loosing its significance as the corporations are having their assets and operations in all the countries.
The multinationals have a whole bunch of solicitors and accounts firrms to manipulate the taxation laws and do not pay any taxes anywhere.
There are a multitude of small island countries whose economies are just based to hide the incomes of these corporations.
The shareholders of these corporations have no moral bindings with any countries but only to profits, dividends and bonuses as they have multiple passports.
Where do you think we are heading to ultimately?