Doomsday for the euro

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MEP Godfrey Bloom says unless tough action is taken the eurozone is doomed.

I wonder if there was even a currency, or indeed concept, which was so much misunderstood by so many self-styled experts. Over 15 years ago I wrote a short paper, published in a leading British national broadsheet newspaper, explaining why the common currency was fundamentally flawed. I was marked down as something between a swivel eyed lunatic by some and harmless eccentric by others. I decided to take a trip down memory lane and re-read the article in question. Here I will therefore outline again the position on the euro as I did 15 years ago with no amendments - none is needed. T...

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