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Jim Hacker may refuse to sign
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The wheels really are falling off the Euro bus. Standing up to Brussels now might be too much and too late.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16048131
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16048131
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Does anyone have much optimism that this latest France/German plan will work. It makes an awful lot of assumptions that the other countries in the euro-zone will agree to closer fiscal unity and be able to push it through their parliaments in a short time frame. If the Euro is to survive in the future than closer fiscal unity is going to be needed but it still does not solve the immediate problems.[FONT="]“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]0
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For anyone who still believes in a harmonised EU, this clip should put things straight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IINpq8eVavg 0 -
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Since no-one else has replied I assume that's a great big no from the commentariatDoes anyone have much optimism that this latest France/German plan will work. It makes an awful lot of assumptions that the other countries in the euro-zone will agree to closer fiscal unity and be able to push it through their parliaments in a short time frame. If the Euro is to survive in the future than closer fiscal unity is going to be needed but it still does not solve the immediate problems.
. It's the same assumption as back in 1999: eventually the Greeks, Portuguese, Spaniards and Italians will become more like the Germans! If it hasn't happened in the past decade why will it happen in the next few months or years? This isn't a decision the political elite, without going totalitarian, can make or put upon their populous.
If the Greeks don't want to pay their taxes (a rather crude 'narrative' imho) then the politicians should do as the people want and reduce spending to a point they don't overspend. I don't see why some bureaucrats in Brussels should demand, say, the Spanish give up their three hour lunch breaks. If the Spanish are happy with their siestas and the slightly lower standard of living then so be it.
Guess it's because in the end he's always told what to do by the civil 'servants'?Why mention Jim Hacker?"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.0
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