[Cicero]

Freedom and democracy at work, the euro version.

Sounds more like Animal Farm.

[cookcounty]

I fail to see why the Europeans thought this was a good idea. It's handing government totally over to the bureaucrats. it's just going to make yhem all irritated with each other. They had a good thing going by working together in the Common Market and NATO. Why did they try to fix it---it wasn't broke?

In the end the "statists" always want more power to wield, and that's the only reason for the EU.

[RS]

I wonder just how they will de-Euro the system when the first one decides to pull out ?

[witnesstothefall]

Europe as a stable unified state is beyond the realm of possibility. There are more differences than commonalities, in language, culture, laws, traditions, history, values, and forms of government.

But the elitists pursuing the project won't be dissuaded by its increasing unpopularity. It's not for the masses but for the elitists that the project was undertaken in the first place.

[Guillermo]

Wait, I thought all of Europe was united, and united against the US...