Replies

I know my way of thinking on this goes against the grain here but it's about time that Europe adopted a single currency. Imagine if the 50 states here in the USA maintained there own currencies? Well that's how it was over there. The average European country is smaller than many our our states. From Germany, for example, you are within a day's drive of about a half dozen other countries. Imagine living in Connecticut and having to convert your currency everytime you wanted to have dinner in Manhattan or go to the beaches in Rhode Island or visit Cape Cod in Massachusetts or go skiing in New Hampshire. Well, now you begin to understand what the Europeans have been going through all these years.

Well the European countries have a right to form a union if they wish, just as the original thirteen colonies here in America decided to form a union some 225 years ago.

I actually think that the tide of socialism in Europe may well be reversed by this move and capitalism has a real chance to flourish over there with a common unit of currency breaking down all the old barriers.

There is a lot more that has to happen of course before there is ever a "United States of Europe", this is just the very beginning. It may well take another generation or so for this thing to play out.

I actually think that the tide of socialism in Europe may well be reversed by this move

I think the larger the scale, the less socialism there is. Basically, if you are a dutchman, it's easier to pay for welfare for a neighboring dutchman that it is to pay welfare for an italian.

Imagine if the 50 states here in the USA maintained there own currencies?

I'll take those shapes! But then I believe in antiquated concepts like "states' rights" as well...