Cameron says Euro needs single government: report

Reuters ^ | Tue May 8, 2012 10:17pm EDT | (Reporting by Stephen Mangan; editing by Christopher Wilson)

[Olog-hai]

A successful eurozone requires a single government if it is to work properly, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a newspaper interview on Wednesday.

"There's nowhere in the world that has a single currency without having more of a single government," Cameron told Britain's Daily Mail.

"Making sense of the euro for me would mean that those eurozone countries would have to have much more coordinated economic policy, much more coordinated debt policy," he said.

Cameron, who opted out of a new European economic pact late last year, advocated Britain's position outside the euro and its ability "to do things to ourselves, for ourselves, by ourselves." …

[Olog-hai]

What a great idea; to empower the ones that hate you.

[RaisingCain]

They can barely even run their own country right, but he wants one government run by people who don’t even have YOU or your PEOPLE’s interest in mind?

Sounds like the perfect recipe to send Europe back to the dark ages.

[RaisingCain]

Though it sounds more like he’s giving his reasons WHY the EU will never work.

[Olog-hai]

Doesn’t help his case that he’s suggesting the very thing that the euro elites want.

[JSteff]

Or portends the end as predicted....

[sheik yerbouty]

He’s a full blown nutter!

[agere_contra]

Reuters headlines never match the body text.

He isn’t advocating that Euro-users become a single political unit. He’s saying that that’s what it would take for the Euro to work.

[Smokin' Joe]

Let me get this right. A mere 70 years after steadfast resistance to a 'unified Europe' (under the Nazis), now the British Prime Minister is calling for a 'unified Europe'?

Oh yeah, that'll end well...

[yldstrk]

what’s a “eurozone” and why would it be needed

[mo]

I think a “ euro zone” is kinda like the kings castle.....it’s where the “rulers” of their European subjects cook up what they’re gonna do to them next....and hide out from the peons and peasants with pitchforks.

Otherwise I dunno......

[cherry]

sounds like a perfect introduction to WW3..

[circlecity]

A single European government? Wasn’t that Hitler’s goal too?

[Free_in_Alabama]

Why can't people reading / posting understand that he is explaining why the EU isn't working? He took Britain further away from EU control last year. Say what you want but the Brits made the right decisions on the EU. In far enough to benefit far enough away not to be pulled down if it failed.

[sphinx]

"Making sense of the euro for me would mean that those eurozone countries would have to have much more coordinated economic policy, much more coordinated debt policy," he said.

The current issue, I think, has more to do with the lack of a common social benefits and tax policy. The Greek view, and now apparently the French view as well, seems to be that everyone in Greece and France gets to retire early, that Greek and French politicians get to spend like there's no tomorrow, and that the Germans will pay for it.

[Travis McGee]

Then, when that fails, they will say the entire world must have only one govt.

No, thanks.

[Caulkhead]

I’ve never read a thread where so many people have completely misunderstood the article and then posted as this one.

Read it carefully and try again.

[GreenLanternCorps]

You haven’t been here very long have you? ;)

I love FR, but posting without reading the article is a long tradition around here.

[bioqubit]

I agree, I interpret his comment as throwing down the gauntlet. He is daring them to stop being political-economic hypocrites, and they can’t do it. Cameron knows it.

[dfwgator]

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

[Olog-hai]

WADR, why is it that you don’t seem to understand that Cameron’s solution to the EU not working is to give the people that run the EU exactly what they want—total control? And that will mean that the EU ascends at the UK’s expense. That’s the last thing that Cameron should be advocating for.