[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.

[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

[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.