Euro(zone) If push comes to shove?

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Mar 31st 2016, 8:37 pm

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TextualHealing

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Re: Euro(zone) If push comes to shove?

I really can't understand the anti Euro sentiment among this group

Mar 31st 2016, 8:43 pm

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Re: Euro(zone) If push comes to shove?

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Originally Posted by TextualHealing

I really can't understand the anti Euro sentiment among this group

Only a modest understanding of economics, politics, and human nature is required to see that the euro and European integration plan was doomed once the plans went beyond the "cooperation of sovereign nations" as envisaged with the Common Market.

The Common Market is what was sold to the first 15 members of the European Onion, and since then everyone has been railroaded on the path to ever greater integration that goes waaay beyond what most people thought they had agreed to.

Mar 31st 2016, 8:57 pm

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Re: Euro(zone) If push comes to shove?

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

You live in America.

Only a modest understanding of economics, politics, and human nature is required to see that the euro and European integration plan has succeeded in avoiding the sort of conflict which militarists like you flourish on.

Last edited by Novocastrian; Mar 31st 2016 at 8:59 pm.

Mar 31st 2016, 9:18 pm

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Re: Euro(zone) If push comes to shove?

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..... Only a modest understanding of economics, politics, and human nature is required to see that the euro and European integration plan has succeeded in avoiding the sort of conflict which militarists like you flourish on.

You credit only 15 years of a shared currency and 25 years of increasingly federal integration with some stunning successes.

I don't think that with a continued Common Market and separate currencies, Europe would have embarked on another war since 1990, any more than it did between 1945 and 1990.