“Introducing single currency was EU’s crucial mistake” – author
14 July, 2010, 10:28
English author and journalist Christopher Booker spoke with RT about the causes of the economic crisis that the EU is facing, and shared his view on global warming.
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Christopher Booker says that Europe is facing a massive financial crisis for reasons that were predicted already in the 70s.
“The greatest mistake was welding Europe together not as one country but under one government – that’s what it is all about. You leave the national governments all in place but you hollow them out from within, you take away their powers – or they give away their powers – and you have a supro-national system of government. The one crucial mistake they made was to have a single currency because right from the start when it was first proposed 30 years ago, wise men – and women, no doubt – economists, including the chief economist to the British government, produced a report in the 1970s saying that the only way you can have a single currency is if you have a single economic government with a power to tax and a command over huge resources,” Christopher Booker explained.
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