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How we’ll get the Euro superstate

Andrew Sullivan: My bet, I’m afraid to say, is on the euro’s collapse. Sometimes, the pressure on such a new and risky experiment becomes too much. And this recession may prove Thatcher right again. You can’t have a single currency for long without a single government. Pretty soon, I suspect we’ll have neither. Let’s take […]

Andrew Sullivan:

My bet, I’m afraid to say, is on the euro’s collapse. Sometimes, the pressure on such a new and risky experiment becomes too much. And this recession may prove Thatcher right again. You can’t have a single currency for long without a single government. Pretty soon, I suspect we’ll have neither.

Let’s take a moment to say: “God bless Mrs. Thatcher.” Think how horrifying it would be for the UK now if it were in the Eurozone.

That said, my gut tells me that Andrew is wrong. All things considered, I’d rather see the euro collapse and see Europe have to deal with the grave fallout than to see European particularities steamrolled by a pan-European bureaucracy administered from Brussels. As an American, I should probably want whatever is going to provide for the most stability in the global economy. But as someone who values European particularity and localism, I think surrendering to the European superstate would amount to nations selling their souls and their liberty.

But I think that’s what will happen, in the end. People are just too frightened. What do you think?

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